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🔍 Do precision land management technologies improve farm efficiency?
This study on laser land levelling (LLL) in India by Shreya Kapoor and Anjani Kumar found that LLL adoption increases paddy yield by 2.64 quintals/acre: doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2026.…
@CGIAR @IFPRISAO #OpenAccess
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His research is helping accelerate the development of improved yam varieties, with the potential to benefit farmers across Africa.
Congratulations, Dr Agre! 👏🏽
🔗 Read more: iita.org/news-item/iita-scie…
#HumansofIITA #AgriculturalResearch #YamBreeding #FoodSecutity
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#ICYMI: Policymakers and program implementers in #Somalia are increasingly recognizing the importance of complementing short-term cash or in-kind transfers with interventions targeting longer-term development goals and poverty exit.
This webinar presented evidence on gendered patterns of livelihoods and access to safety nets among displaced households.
🗨️Deboleena Rakshit @meanregressive, @leightjessica, John-Paul Nyeko (@WorldVision) & @NKarachiwalla
📺 on.cgiar.org/4z7kP0I
@CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa
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Climate projects often bring solutions into communities. But sometimes farmers already have the answer but their neighbours just haven't seen it.
In Kenya, a better way to make silage for dairy cattle is moving from local farms into agricultural extension.
#RoadtoCOP31 @CGIAR
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Crop diversity connects countries worldwide.
The Treaty’s Multilateral System has made more than 2.6 million holdings available, enabled over 111 000 Standard Material Transfer Agreements and supported the transfer of almost 7 million samples.
Stay tuned for more at #COP17 ⬇️
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ICRISAT at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (#CBDCOP17), being held from 19–30 October 2026 in Yerevan, #Armenia.
The event convened key partners, stakeholders, and funders to discuss vital issues around biodiversity conservation and the significance of crop genetic diversity in dryland agriculture.
Representing ICRISAT, Dr Stanford Blade (@DrStanfordBlade), Deputy Director General – Research and Innovation, and Dr Falalou Hamidou, Senior Scientist – Regional Genebank and Country Representative of Niger, attended the session “Scaling up capacity sharing to bridge the DSI divide,” focusing on access to digital sequence information (#DSI) and capacity building. They also highlighted the role of ICRISAT’s Genebank in conserving crop genetic diversity for research and crop improvement.
A key highlight was the inclusion of ICRISAT’s 2025 DSI training course, conducted under the CGIAR Genebanks Accelerator, in CGIAR’s presentation at the conference. Dr Damaris Odeny, Principal Scientist – Genomics, Pre-breeding and Bioinformatics, ICRISAT, and President of the African Plant Breeders Association (@PlantAPBA), also shared the course with the association.
COP17 Armenia (@COP17_Arm2026) | Government of the Republic of Armenia (@armgov) | United Nations Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) | UN Environment Programme (@UNEP) | International Union for Conservation of Nature (@IUCN) | United Nations Development Programme (@UNDP).
@CGIAR | CGIAR Genebanks | @CGIARbreeding
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How do we turn climate ambition into action for resilient agri-food systems? 🌍
Ahead of #COP31, join @CGIARclimate to explore how evidence, policy, partnerships and finance can scale proven solutions.
📅 28 Oct | 15:00 EAT
🔗 Register: on.cgiar.org/4zQPCyX @CGIAR
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Opportunity crops can help diversify diets and strengthen climate resilience. But limited access to quality seed keeps many farmers from growing them.
Tune in later today at #COP17 as the Crop Trust’s Sarada Krishnan and partners explore 6 policy priorities for turning this potential into action: from conserving crop diversity to improving variety registration and seed delivery.
🌱 Unlocking opportunity crops for healthy diets and climate resilience
🗓️ Today, Monday 26 October | 16:00, Yerevan time
📍 @CGIAR Pavilion, Blue Zone
Watch online: events.cgiar.org/unlockingop…
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Safeguarding crop diversity for future generations!
ICRISAT’s Genebank has deposited 1,868 accessions (800 sorghum and 1,068 pearl millet) at the @ICARDA Genebank in Rabat, Morocco, strengthening the long-term conservation of valuable crop genetic resources.
With this deposit, ICRISAT has achieved 93% first-level safety duplication of its collection, ensuring greater security for these vital genetic resources and keeping them available for future research, crop improvement and climate-resilient agriculture.
@CGIAR @CropTrust
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Food crises are growing more complex, while funding for critical data systems is falling. Today in Rome, partners launched the Intentional Data Community with support from @RockefellerFdn to strengthen existing systems and help countries act earlier.
Read the press release here: on.cgiar.org/4z6YGQr
The IFPRI analysis by Chris Hillbruner, @ruthvargashill, Brian McNamara, and Zoe Scott conducted as part of the VITAL Data initiative is available here: hdl.handle.net/10568/186068
@CGIAR @WorldBankGroup @FAO @WFP @UNICEF @SUN_Movement @EU_Commission @fightfoodcrises @AKADEMIYA2063 @Google
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🆕 #Blog Who gets what? Budgets and discretion in community-led social protection targeting
🖋️ By @KibromAbay, @GuushBerhane, @dogilligan, Kibrom Tafere, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse.
Shrinking humanitarian and international development assistance funding amid growing global crises has strained the operations of governments and humanitarian organizations.
Recent research in Ethiopia tests how budget constraints and variations in targeting rules impact targeting outcomes: on.cgiar.org/4skbHU4
@CGIAR @CGIARPolicy @IFPRI_Africa
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Protecting potatoes 🥔 starts with early detection.
CIP has launched a new Purple Top website 💻 with scientific information and a risk map to help monitor and manage this serious threat to Andean potato production.
👉🏽 bit.ly/LaunchPurpleTop
🔸 @CGIAR
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The Secured Climate-linked Agri Lending Ecosystem (SCALE) expands access to finance for smallholder farmers often excluded from formal lending—many of them women—and integrates incentives for using climate-friendly approaches.
Learn more in this recent blog by @BerberKramer, Tarun Katoch, and Julie Ghostlaw: on.cgiar.org/4zzYHw2
#ClimateFinance #ClimateResilience #IYWF2026 @CGIAR @IFPRISAO @dvaraholdings
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🆕 #Blog Measuring what matters: Building better food data from everyday market realities
🖋️ By Cynthia Kazembe @Cee_00 and Lara Cockx
In #Malawi, Maize is sold by the bucket, beans by the cup, rice by the plate, and groundnuts by the tin. IFPRI’s fieldwork is generating an updated and transparent collection of commodity-specific measurements that anyone working with data on food consumption and production can use to turn everyday quantities into reliable statistics: on.cgiar.org/4idTpir
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A pleasure to welcome @CGIAR leadership to Abidjan this week led by @CGIAR_EMD Ismahane Elouafi and CGIAR Continental Champion for #Africa @simeonehui! 🤝
Strategic meetings with @AfDB_Group President @AfDBPresident Sidi Ould Tah’s team and Minister of Agriculture @Bruno_N_Kone — working together to transform agrifood systems in Africa.
One CGIAR. One mission. 🌍🌾
#OneCGIAR
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In Abidjan this week, I joined CGIAR Executive Managing Director @CGIAR_EMD Ismahane Elouafi and AfricaRice Director General @BaboucarrManne8 to meet AfDB President @AfDBPresident Sidi Ould Tah on El Niño preparedness and climate resilience across Africa.
Separately, we met Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister Bruno Nabagné Koné to discuss how CGIAR can support the country’s agricultural and food-system priorities.
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Cette semaine à Abidjan, j’ai rencontré, avec @CGIAR_EMD Ismahane Elouafi, Directrice générale du CGIAR, et @BaboucarrManne8 , Directeur général d’AfricaRice, le président de la BAD, @AfDB_Group Sidi Ould Tah, pour échanger sur la préparation de l’Afrique face à El Niño et la résilience climatique.
Nous avons rencontré séparément le Ministre ivoirien Bruno Nabagné Koné pour discuter de l’appui du CGIAR aux priorités agricoles et alimentaires du pays.
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El Niño events can significantly influence Kenya’s seasonal rainfall patterns, growing seasons, and national economy.
To estimate these impacts, researchers employed RIAPA-AI (Rural Investment and Policy Analysis with artificial intelligence), a conversational interface built around IFPRI’s standard computable general equilibrium (CGE) model that allows users to quickly generate rigorous simulations of national economies.
Learn more in this recent blog by Emerta Aragie, Shadrack Mwatu, Adan Shibia, and Chris Hillbruner: on.cgiar.org/4dtfAQl
@CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa @KIPPRAKENYA
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IFPRI is pleased to join #SLAN2026 from October 25–29, 2026 in Santiago, Chile, the conference will bring together researchers, academics, health professionals, policymakers, and students from across the #LAC region to discuss the future of food systems & nutrition.
Learn more here: on.cgiar.org/4BounWY
@CGIAR @CGIARnutrition
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🔔 HAPPENING NOW! 🔔
📌 Political Economy of Fertilizer Subsidies.
🤝 IFPRI & AgIncentives Consortium
📆October 21, 2026, 10:00 – 11:00 am (US/Eastern)
🗨️@JeffBloem, @D_E_Resnick, & Jibran Punthakey (@OECDTrade)
🎫 on.cgiar.org/4zvyHlf
@CGIAR @CGIARPolicy
