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🌾 🔬 Behind every resilient harvest is decades of science, partnership and local knowledge.
🌍 CGIAR works to turn scientific breakthroughs into practical solutions that farmers can use today and adapt for tomorrow.
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#WithScienceWeCan #FoodSystems
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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
@CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa @IFPRIMalawi
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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.
☕ Kenya’s coffee production has declined 70%, with ambitions to reach 150,000 tonnes. @BiovIntCIAT_eng is engaging with KALRO-CRI to explore adapting Croppie, an AI-powered app, for better farm decisions.
👉 on.cgiar.org/4jrFxDJ
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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
🗣️ Registration is now open for CGIAR Science & Partnership Week 2027! 🌍
Join changemakers from around the world for a week of science, collaboration and action.
📅 12–17 April 2027
📍 New Delhi, India
cgiar.org/spw2027
@icarindia @ICRISAT #CGIARScienceWeek
At @TheAGRF, we sat down with Sandra Milach, @NamukoloC and @TJKrupnik to talk about how proven science can be connected with finance, partnerships and country delivery systems to transform Africa’s food systems at scale.
📽️ Watch here: youtu.be/D8YVasiWlwc?si=400n…
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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
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Research can help farmers grow resilient crops and protect biodiversity 🌱. But its impact is limited if people cannot access its findings.
This #OpenAccessWeek, discover why open science matters.
👉🏽 bit.ly/OAW-2026
🔸 @CGIAR
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Restoration needs more than tree planting. The right species and quality seeds matter.
Happening now at the @CGIAR Pavilion at #COP17Armenia, a session on tree conservation and biodiversity targets.
Join the livestream:🔗 bit.ly/4iwOjiK
#Landscapes4Life #CBDCOP17
African rice science, policy, and investment converge in Abidjan. 🌾
The 34th @AfricaRice Council of Ministers convenes 4–6 November 2026 in Côte d’Ivoire — bringing together 28 Ministers and 28 national research leaders from across Africa.
#RiceforAfrica
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Restoring degraded land does more than store carbon. It can protect water, support biodiversity and boost incomes.
@CGIAR's Petra Schmitter explains how valuing these benefits could unlock more adaptation finance and why public funding remains essential.
#RoadtoCOP31
Food, land and water decisions involve trade-offs. 🌾💧
Ahead of #COP31, join CGIAR Climate Action and partners to explore how evidence can guide country-led choices and mobilize finance for lasting resilience.
📅 28 Oct | 3pm Nairobi / 1pm CET
⏩ on.cgiar.org/4eFg1aF
