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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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CIMMYT director general visits India
13.06.18-
Food security
Last week director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Martin …
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Agricultural researchers boost fight against malnutrition with staple crops
12.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Breeding research by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is generating not…
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Hunger busters: Ed Mabaya on improved seeds in Africa
24.05.18-
Food security
At a recent TEDx event in Johannesburg, South Africa, agricultural economist and development practit…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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Breaking Ground: Lorena Gonzalez fast-forwards action on hunger using technology
17.05.18-
Big data
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Food security
Intrigued by the unique relationship food crops have to their geographical environment, Lorena Gonza…
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CIMMYT Board of Trustees: Out of the Boardroom and into the field
16.05.18-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)’s Board of Trustees visits the Cente…
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How collaboration can help grow and transform agriculture in Africa
16.05.18It’s been four years since African leaders met in Equatorial Guinea to commit themselves to…
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Moving ‘impact’ beyond a buzzword in international development
03.05.18-
Food security
In the arena of international development, impact is the name of the game. Researchers, practitioner…
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Fourth international workshop on farming system design in south Asia
03.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The fourth international workshop on “Science of Farming Systems: Moving from Prototyping to Model…
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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern…
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Breaking ground: Mike Olsen uses new technology to improve farmer’s yields
12.03.18-
Food security
Global challenges to agriculture such as climate change, crop diseases and pests mean that the…
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CIMMYT promotes gender awareness in agriculture research and development in Ethiopia
07.03.18-
Gender equality
Gender awareness and gender-sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, ex…
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First zinc maize variety launched to reduce malnutrition in Colombia
01.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
A new zinc-enriched maize variety was released in Colombia on February 23 to help combat…
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China’s vice premier ushers in new era of agricultural collaboration
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new collaborative program promising to train Chinese Ph.D. and postdoctoral students annually at t…
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