Strengthening partnerships in championing forest and tree conservation in the tropics

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

In several respects, the first decade of the 21st century was a golden opportunity for…

To manage El Nino-related crop distress in eastern and southern Africa, invest in drought-tolerant seeds and better soil and water care

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

To mitigate the impact of the current drought affecting millions of farmers living in Kenya…

Are we reducing hunger in the world?

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Food security
Nutrition

It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…

What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…

The research-practitioner divide: Why we are still optimistic

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Food security

Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects for…

Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Food security
Nutrition

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…

Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database

Biodiversity
Nutrition

A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…

Memorandum of Understanding marks invigorated partnership for CGIAR and Republic of Korea

CGIAR

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

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

CGIAR and the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of Korea, have signed a…

Emerging scientist: Surendran Rajaratnam

WorldFish

15.04.19

Gender equality

Understanding why people do what they do and what they can do differently to improve…

New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea

15.04.19

Big data
Food security
Nutrition

Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…

Plant breeding for the future—the time is now

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

15.04.19

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re…

French delegation explores agribusiness collaboration with IITA Abuja

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

13.04.19

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

IITA, the French Embassy in Nigeria, and the French Agriculture Research Centre for International …

IFPRI Signs MoU with Indonesia’s Ministry of Planning

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security

April 12, 2019, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and th…

Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop with packets of rice samples in the new AfricaRice genebank in Mbe. Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust

A Homecoming for Rice

CGIAR Genebank Platform

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Biodiversity
Food security

AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…

2019 Global Food Policy Report Malawi launch: Reforming agriculture for rural revitalization

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

Food security
Nutrition

Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and ineq…

(L) Ms Agatha with her processed sorghum products. Photo: B Jayashree, ICRISAT (R) Dr Mary Mgonja, sorghum entrepreneur. Photo: Avisa Project

The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary