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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.
📺 on.cgiar.org/45HaDPT
#WithScienceWeCan #FoodSystems
☀️One Ethiopian farmer earned 8x more from a season of solar-irrigated cabbage than with diesel. @IWMI_ and the CGIAR Scaling for Impact on why solar pumps work best bundled with smarter farming 👉 on.cgiar.org/4i3Qg4W
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How can science help prevent a potato 🥔 crisis?
CIP’s new Purple Top website features a risk map 🗺️ and tools 🔍 to help identify threats to potato crops. AI-powered detection technologies are also in development.
👉🏽 bit.ly/LaunchPurpleTop
🔸 @CGIAR
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Farmers rely on climate advisories, from planting calendars to drought alerts. But many depend on project funding and disappear just as farmers learn to trust them.
What would it take to keep these services running beyond the funding cycle?
@CGIAR | #RoadtoCOP31
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In early 2025, an IFPRI-led project introduced a mechanization package to 20 women's shea cooperatives in northern Ghana: a motorized tricycle, a mechanical dehusking machine, and personal protective equipment.
Recent focus group discussions with the cooperatives have shown that this mechanization package has reduced dehusking time from two to three days to about 30 minutes per 80-100 kg sack, allowing for:
➡️ New and expanded income-generating activities
➡️More time for farming:
➡️More time for family
🔗 on.cgiar.org/4zydw22
#IYWF2026 @CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa @japan
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🌾 Voices from the Global Rice Policy Dialogue 2026: Leaders and policymakers share how CGIAR research informs action on the ground, and where policy innovation must go next. Watch the full video compilation below to hear their stories firsthand! @CGIAR
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How can food systems in northern Nigeria become more resilient to conflict and climate shocks?
Bedru Balana, @swomamo, @A_Mulubrhan, Olufemi Popoola, Chibuzo Nwagboso, Serigne Loum, Khusro Jawed, and Kwaw Andam map supply chains and identify key inefficiencies, including high input and transport costs and infrastructure gaps.
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2026.1…
@CGIAR @CGIARPolicy @IFPRI_Africa
🐟 🌍 A new @WorldFishCenter initiative aims to create 25,000 jobs for women and young people in the fish sector in Nigeria and Tanzania, from fish feed and hatcheries to processing and cold storage.
Read more 👉 on.cgiar.org/4B9FYc5
A valuable exchange between Naomi Tokashiki and CGIAR’s André Zandstra on the Japan-CGIAR partnership, dating back to 1972.
We look forward to stronger collaboration with Japanese researchers and the private sector to support resilient global food systems and food security.
【一部書き直しました】
国際農業研究ネットワーク「CGIAR」のディレクター、André Zandstra氏が事務所を訪問され、世界の食料安全保障について意見交換しました。
CGIARは1971年に設立され、飢餓や貧困の削減、農業技術の発展に取り組む国際組織です。日本も長年貢献してきましたが、近年、日本の国際的な存在感が低下しています。
私は、「日本が参加しなければ損をする」と思わせる国際協力のアプローチこそが重要だと提言しました。
気候変動や自然災害が深刻化する中、食料安全保障は一国だけでは守れません。
日本が誇る農薬に頼らない栽培技術などを国際的に評価する仕組みをつくれば、日本の農業の競争力を高め、世界の食料問題の解決にも貢献できます。
国際協力は、一方的な支援ではなく、互いの強みを生かし、共に成長する関係であるべきです。
日本の技術を世界の力に、世界との連携を日本の成長に。
こうした視点にZandstra氏も強い関心を示され、有意義な意見交換となりました。
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How do you keep policy advice fast when economic decisions usually take months to model? That’s what we’ve been working on. We are excited to showcase Policy AI, our new tool designed to make economic scenario modeling quicker, simpler, and grounded in solid evidence. @CGIAR
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Global expertise in crop science and digital innovation came together today at ICRISAT’s headquarters in India, as @CGIAR and Google.org brought their technical teams together for a five-day working session to advance AI-powered digital phenotyping for crop improvement.
Welcoming participants, Dr Himanshu Pathak (@HPathakOfficial), Director General, ICRISAT, urged the teams to prioritize developing common standards.
Under the Science program @CGIARbreeding for Tomorrow, the session brought together CG centers including ICRISAT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (@CIMMYT), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (@IITA_CGIAR), the Alliance of Bioversity International and @BiovIntCIAT_eng , the International Potato Center (@Cipotato), the International Rice Research Institute (@irri) and @AfricaRice .
The five-day working session will focus on advancing mobile and drone-based phenotyping workflows and developing scalable crop-breeding solutions, with deployment plans for the 2026–2027 growing season.
🌍 Explore the @CGIARgender Report and discover what it takes to build a more equitable and resilient future.
🔗Full report: on.cgiar.org/4dI8yHv
#CGIARGENDER #GenderinAg #IYWF2026
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【一部書き直しました】
国際農業研究ネットワーク「CGIAR」のディレクター、André Zandstra氏が事務所を訪問され、世界の食料安全保障について意見交換しました。
CGIARは1971年に設立され、飢餓や貧困の削減、農業技術の発展に取り組む国際組織です。日本も長年貢献してきましたが、近年、日本の国際的な存在感が低下しています。
私は、「日本が参加しなければ損をする」と思わせる国際協力のアプローチこそが重要だと提言しました。
気候変動や自然災害が深刻化する中、食料安全保障は一国だけでは守れません。
日本が誇る農薬に頼らない栽培技術などを国際的に評価する仕組みをつくれば、日本の農業の競争力を高め、世界の食料問題の解決にも貢献できます。
国際協力は、一方的な支援ではなく、互いの強みを生かし、共に成長する関係であるべきです。
日本の技術を世界の力に、世界との連携を日本の成長に。
こうした視点にZandstra氏も強い関心を示され、有意義な意見交換となりました。
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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…
