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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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What are kids watching online? How digital food marketing shapes children’s and adolescents’ diets
03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Farm mechanization under COVID-19
02.06.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the way the world operates, and agricultural production…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Food security
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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CIMMYT for Mexico in times of a global pandemic
26.05.20-
Food security
CIMMYT has been working hand in hand with Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Developmen…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Scaling up research for development in CGIAR
21.05.20-
Food security
In a bid to scale impact of its research outputs, ILRI has recently undertaken a…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
13.05.20-
Food security
A major farmer survey is gathering data to understand how smallholders in Laos are responding…
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Launching the AgriFoodTrust platform
12.05.20-
Big data
A new testing and learning platform for digital trust and transparency technologies — such as…
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Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
08.05.20-
Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT, ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN In many developing countries, women ofte…
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Ethiopian wheat farmers adopt quality seed and a vision for a more profitable future
30.04.20-
Food security
High-yielding, disease-resistant wheat varieties used by Ethiopian wheat farmers between 2015 and 20…
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In the best possible taste
29.04.20-
Food security
The pursuit for higher and more stable yields, alongside better stress tolerance, has dominated maiz…
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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security
13.04.20While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…
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