Making good on dakar 2 commitments
25 May 2023, Africa: CGIAR’s System Board Chair, Professor Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, represented CGIAR at the African Development Bank’s ‘Feed Africa – Food
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AgroFresh Expands Produce Freshness Solutions in Brazil with the Approval of SmartFresh InBox
25 May 2023, Philadelphia: AgroFresh Solutions Inc., a global agtech innovator that provides produce freshness solutions, and digital technologies that enhance the
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Accelerating delivery of stress-tolerant, nutritious seed in Eastern and Southern Africa
24 May 2023, Africa: Accelerated delivery with a difference is underway in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia to ensure access to stress-tolerant seeds for
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From Entrepreneur to Employer: How Vitamin A Orange Sweet Potatoes Are Transforming Livelihoods
23 May 2023, Uganda: Peter Omondi is a rural Ugandan farmer. His life changed forever when he heard about vitamin A orange sweet
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Crop Trust leadership visits CIMMYT
23 May 2023, US: With many stresses facing agricultural food systems, including climate change, disease epidemics, growing populations, there is not one solution
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Taylor Leabourn wins 2023 Pukekohe Young Grower of the Year competition
22 May 2023, NZ: Taylor Leabourn, a 28-year-old agronomist at LeaderBrand, won the 2023 Pukekohe Young Grower of the Year competition on
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Farmers at the Forefront: Utilizing Agricultural Data to Monitor G7 and G20 Pledges
19 May 2023, Asia: New dashboard will draw on CGIAR data and research to track G7/G20 commitments and inform policy for food systems
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A promising partnership
18 May 2023, Africa: In August 2022, the arrival of a container ship at the port in Cotonou, Benin signaled a major
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Icrisat-gsda forge partnership to revolutionize agricultural water conservation in maharashtra, India
17 May 2023, India: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), the Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency (GSDA), and the
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CIMMYT at the AIM for Climate Summit
17 May 2023, Africa: As climate change threats accelerate, new technologies, products, and approaches are required for small holder farmers to mitigate and
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