🌾 🔬 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

🔬🌾Agricultural science used to move one way, from wealthy countries to the Global South. Not anymore. Now funding needs to catch up. @CGIAR_EMD lays out how in a new paper 👉 helix.ceps.eu/publication/23…

Register for #CGIARScienceWeek 🌍 Join us in New Delhi for a week of science, innovation and partnerships tackling food systems challenges. 📅 12–17 April 2027 Register: cgiar.org/spw2027 @ICRISAT @icarindia

In eastern DRC, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT’s #B4WE project is empowering 13 young women to grow their bean businesses. 🌱 Empowering women. Strengthening livelihoods. Building resilience. Read more: on.cgiar.org/4i5RsGa

🌽 High yields and aflatoxin resistance can go together. @IITA_CGIAR researchers tested 166 maize hybrids and found 5 that combine both, a step toward safer maize 🔬 Read more 👉 on.cgiar.org/4dO0MvO

Evidence alone won't scale climate solutions. Partnerships, finance and national systems are crucial too. Today, hear how research is being connected to action in agri-food systems. 🕒 15:00 EAT | 13:00 CET 🔗 on.cgiar.org/4zQPCyX #RoadtoCOP31 @CGIAR

🆕 #Blog Building resilience amid conflict: Insights from IFPRI Sudan at the 8th African Conference of Agricultural Economists 🖊️ By Shima Mohamed, Hala Abushama, and @khalidhasiddig A new IFPRI book explores how conflict has disrupted Sudan’s agrifood system. Research shows how war has reduced agricultural production, disrupted markets, and undermined food security and livelihoods across the country. Read more: on.cgiar.org/4iaBpa3 @CGIAR @IFPRI_Africa

In Senegal, fishing communities received accurate, timely warnings of dangerous seas. Yet boats still went out. The problem wasn't the forecast, but who received it. What does it take for an early warning to reach those making the decisions? #RoadtoCOP31

☀️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

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

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

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

🌾 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

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.

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

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

【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。

🔍 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