IITA continues supporting the PADECAS Project in Central Africa Republic

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…

ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, received the Knowledge Management Award from A…

Call for proposals: The political economy of food system transformation

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) is issuing a call for…

Programs need to focus on the double burden of malnutrition: Evidence from Guatemala

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Health
Nutrition

Most countries, at all levels of development and in all regions of the world, today…

UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Big data

CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…

Policy seminar: Doing more, doing better, and doing new on climate adaptation

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

With the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit and other events—including the recent release of the …

Improved soybean varieties increase farmer incomes by 53% – study shows

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Without a doubt, maize is the giant of all food crops in Malawi. However, most…

Scientists show which genetic loci is associated with bunch weight in highland banana

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Scientists have, for the first time, located the position of major quantitative trait loci associate…

A plate served with fried pork and raw relishes (photo credit: ILRI/Martin Heilmann, Freie Universitaet Berlin).

ILRI researchers propose traceability system for Kenya’s smallholder pig value chain

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Health

A traceability system in the smallholder pig value chain in Kenya could help address challenges…

Breaking news from the United Nations climate action summit…New York

Climate adaptation & mitigation

CGIAR to get more than $650 Million to accelerate efforts to help 300 million smallholder…

The future of aquatic foods – including lab-grown “synthetic” fish – spurs new agreement between WorldFish and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

WorldFish

(Penang, Malaysia – 17thSept 2019) – The need to better understand the future of aquatic foods…

Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

CGIAR

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
Food security

With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond…

Climate change is a youth issue

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Climate change ranks among the most important dynamics shaping livelihoods of young people now and…

Large-scale genomics will improve the yield, climate-resilience, and quality of bread wheat, new study shows

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

Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing…

Participants of the international course on remote sensing, at the Centre for Dryland Agriculture, Bayero University (CDA-BUK), Kano. Photo: CDA-BUK

Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Health

A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…

IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The African Association of Agricultural Economists holds its 6th annual conference this week in Ab…

ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries