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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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Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy
04.01.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political newcomers…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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Journal article: Tragedy revisited (Science)
21.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses how games could be used to help people cooperate to sustainably manage…
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Medium-scale farms are on the rise in Africa. Why this is good news
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Driven by population growth and growing land scarcity, most African farm households are witnessing t…
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G20 Buenos Aires Summit: Fostering growth and sustainability in food systems
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first G20 Summit, held in Washington in 2008 at…
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Why the influence of agricultural policy research is probably greater than we think
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is commonly understood that agricultural and food security policy research can influence policy o…
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Project will explore ways to boost Southeast Asia smallholders’ access to finance
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in developing countries face substantial constraints to boosting production—ch…
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Decision-support tools remove the guesswork from agronomic innovation
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Decision-support tools being piloted in Nigeria and Tanzania can help cassava growers decide if agro…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
11.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
Big data
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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Why Nigeria urgently needs to grow non-oil exports
10.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The economy of Nigeria has had to navigate a major crisis that started with the…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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WEBINAR: Aspirations, trust, and poverty reduction
05.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate…
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From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity
04.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“Not all of CGIAR’s objectives are maximized by increasing yield alone; if we want to…
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