IITA and SAA strengthen collaboration to drive agricultural innovation
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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
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Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
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Opinion: If COP 27 Ignores Farmers, Global Food Security will Suffer
15.11.22We are already living in a world that is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times,…
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CGIAR Welcomes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1.4 Billion Pledge to Climate Adaptation
10.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-income country leaders gathered at COP27 have repeatedly called for climate finance to support t…
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CGIAR Country, Region and Funding Partners Signal Strong Support for Integration
09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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Forging partnerships to tackle invasive species in Ghana’s farming communities
13.05.24In Ghana, pests and diseases cause food and agriculture-related losses valued at USD 1 billion…
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Nigeria taking steps toward evidence-based policymaking with IITA support
13.05.24Nigeria is undergoing significant transitions, from political changes to demographic, socioeconomic,…
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Cultivating growth and competitiveness: Insights from Tanzania’s Cassava Business and Investment Forum
13.05.24The Ministry of Agriculture of Tanzania, in collaboration with the Tanzania Cassava Producers and P…
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From staple to solution: Cassava Chat Friday promotes cassava value chain
13.05.24Cassava, known for its versatility and resilience, offers numerous opportunities for value addition,…
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Un Antiguo Sistema de Gestión del Agua en Sri Lanka Vuelve a la Vida: He Aquí el Porqué
13.05.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Los 'sistemas de tanques en cascada' (TCS por sus siglas en inglés) son un antiquísimo…
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A portable decision support tool cuts fungicide use in Kenya, keeping potato harvests and environmental health high
12.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Late blight presents a double-edged challenge for potato farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: not only doe…
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Safeguarding Global Plant Diversity
12.05.24-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
The International Day of Plant Health 2024 – marked on 12 May under the theme…
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Geoffrey Hawtin: Catalyst for Agricultural Innovation Honored with World Food Prize
10.05.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Geoffrey Hawtin's leadership as Director General of IPGRI and Bioversity International (from 1991…
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Founding a Cutting-Edge Aquatic Animal Health Research Program at WorldFish
10.05.24Aquatic animal health is a major constraint on sustainable aquatic food farming systems, with global…
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Webinar: Launching SPAM2020, the latest innovation in global crop mapping
09.05.24BY ZHE GUO, ELEANOR JONES, AND LIANGZHI YOU OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 With climate change…
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Fostering Diverse Water-Energy-Food Nexus Networks
09.05.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Water, energy, and food are intimately linked and interdependent. Together, these resources have a m…
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Soaring cocoa prices: Diverse impacts and implications for key West African producers
08.05.24BY MARTIN PAUL JR. TABE-OJONG, ONASIS THARCISSE ADETUMI GUEDEGBE, AND JOSEPH GLAUBER OPEN ACCESS |…
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Scalable success in improving smallholder poultry systems demonstrated in Cambodia and Vietnam
07.05.24-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The midterm review of the International Livestock Research Institute-led Asian Chicken Genetics Gain…
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Ensuring Blue Economy is not just a Buzzword
07.05.24The blue economy holds a grand promise: to harness the ocean's vast resources for sustainable…
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To improve Africa’s soil health and plant nutrition, empower women farmers
06.05.24BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND CARGELE MASSO OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Healthy soils play a critical…
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Local stakeholders drive solutions: workshop tackles water management challenges in Bangladesh
06.05.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Khulna, Bangladesh (April 24, 2024) –To address the complexities surrounding water management in t…
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YAS hosts Dutch food and nutrition team
06.05.24The Youth in Agribusiness: Enabling scaling of innovative technologies for sustainable food solution…
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IITA trains stakeholders on the power of molecular markers in banana breeding and seed systems
06.05.24Genetic purity is one of the utmost requirements for quality seeds. In bananas, the penalty…
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