Status quo and challenges of rice production in sub-Saharan Africa

International Potato Center (CIP)

Big data

Agriculture accounts for about 70% of global freshwater use, and as the population grows, so…

An app to help potato farmers reduce agrochemical use

International Potato Center (CIP)

Big data

More than 170 years after it provoked the Great Famine of Ireland, late blight disease…

Big data drives solutions to global challenges

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Big data

While CGIAR scientists have long used big data in their research for development, the COVID-19…

The impact of COVID-19 on the food system in Nairobi

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Food security

There have been far reaching effects on Nairobi’s economy following the COVID-19 crisis, with the…

Resource-poor women farmers benefit by forming collectives

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Food security
Gender equality

Collectives enhance productivity and improve livelihoods Poor and landless farmers can sustainably i…

The rural woman – a powerful force that can drive global progress

17.10.20

IITA joins the rest of the world to spotlight the people who feed the world—women.…

Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security
Nutrition

Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…

Molecular biologists at multiple CGIAR centers shared information about gene editing work underway at the centers and at partnering organizations. (ICRISAT)

CGIAR focus on gene editing crops for a food and income secure future

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Health

Speaking during the second webinar of the One CGIAR Global Series on Gene Editing, lead…

ICRISAT among 11 global ‘Hubs’ to accelerate the use of natural genetic diversity to advance crop improvement

Food security

Using chickpea as the case species, one of the proposed 11 hubs of DivSeek International…

Are Food Systems ‘Broken’ – or Just Out of Sync?

CGIAR

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Our food systems are not broken; they are out of sync with what we need…

Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot

Health

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same…

CGIAR Research Pays Off: New Report Finds 10 Times Return on Investment

CGIAR

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Investments in CGIAR research generate returns of 10 times the amount invested, a new report…

Water and nutrition in a COVID-19 context: Where do we go from here?

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Environmental health
Food security

Claudia Ringler is Deputy Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology and a Co-Coordi…

Eradicating poverty through science – consulting farmers early on

Eradicating poverty through science – consulting farmers early on On International Day for the Era…

Ending Global Hunger Need Not Cost the Earth – If We Invest Now

CGIAR

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

This year should have been a milestone for global climate action, setting out the road…

DryArc – Time to Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together.

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

DryArc – Time to Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together. World Food Day is an opportunity to…

Ms Zuwena Hamisi Chipangula runs the Tunduru Agro-Dealer shop in Tanzania. Photo: Ndichu (TLIII Project)

Resilient rural women of the drylands