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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Building capacity in crop modeling today for a better tomorrow
12.02.21-
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Young Malawian researchers are being trained in crop modeling to tackle land, water and climate…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes
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Environmental health
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Food security
Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Manage…
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Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’
05.02.21-
Food security
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Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time
29.01.21-
Food security
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A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…
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WIRES: Newly launched platform to connect and inspire women in research across CGIAR
29.01.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new employee-led group, formed to support and celebrate women in science and research at…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
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Biodiversity
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The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Young Malian researchers gear up for grand challenges with crop modeling
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
UE-APSAN Mali project trains next generation of modeling experts Budding agricultural researchers ar…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
31.12.20-
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Health
A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
24.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global…
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Genomics-assisted breeding delivers high-yielding, wilt resistant chickpea for commercial cultivation in central India
18.12.20-
Nutrition
A high-yielding and wilt resistant variety with a yield potential double to that of existing…
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Upskilling climate change experts in Mali: Training begins with live project synopsis
18.12.20-
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A training program initiated by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is upskilli…
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Sorghum and millet grow money for the Mariko family
11.12.20-
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Use of improved seed triples yields, credit through warrantage system leads to big gains. Access…
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Newly launched millet food finder shows a revolution is underway
27.11.20-
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Millets have sometimes been hailed as the next quinoa but researchers collating a global database…
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Use of scientific evidence for greater partnerships and better policies
27.11.20-
Environmental health
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Surveys on agricultural technology adoption in Nigeria carried out in 2019-2020 revealed gains made …
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
20.11.20-
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Gender equality
A training session for farmers in Niger. In order to guide farmers in Niger to…
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