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News Promoting gender-inclusive, farmer-centric precision nutrient management The workshop highlighted practical strategies for creating an enabling environment that supports women and marginalized farmers in accessing and adopting precision nutrient management within Vietnam’s One Million Hectares Program.

How can agricultural science help development finance deliver better results for people? At the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026, CGIAR’s dialogue on “Capital, Science, Partners” explores how governments, international financial institutions (IFIs), and research partners can work together to embed proven innovations in country-led investment and implementation. The scale of the challenge is stark.

News Women, Innovation, and Cassava: An Exchange of Knowledge Between Colombia and Indonesia In Malang, East Java Province, a prized way of eating cassava is tape singkong, fermented cassava roots which carry deep cultural significance, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. In recent years, tape singkong has moved from local to international markets. But even as demand for it grows, the area of land planted with cassava in the region is shrinking.

News Beyond the Roadmaps: What It Will Take to Truly Transform Food Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean In early April, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in Panama for the follow-up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit. The mood was, in many ways, encouraging: countries are moving forward.

News Turning forest conservation and landscape restoration into livelihood opportunities: a consultation on incentives in the upper Omo–Ghibe Basin in Southwest Ethiopia The conservation and protection of forests, as well as restoration of degraded landscapes, require substantial resources. Such initiatives are also said to restrict the access of forest-dependent communities to their resources.

By the World Food Programme Impact Evaluation TeamSeptember 2, 2026 School meal programs improve children’s nutrition, food security, and mental well-being. When meals are produced locally, these programs also build more robust economies. But not all school meal programs were created equal. With changes to how food is procured and delivered, governments and other partners can make school meals go so much further.

The training brought together nearly 28 participants from Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture, including representatives from CALM, RLLP and PACT projects; the Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI); Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR); Amhara Agricultural Research Institute (APARI); universities including Bahir Dar University, Haramaya University, Hawassa University and Sodo University; GIZ; World Resources Institute (WRI); NGOs including World Vision, Farm Africa,...

News Reading the Weather that Never Falls from the Sky A coffee-farming family in the mountains of Honduras has probably never heard of the Chicago exchange. Even so, what their harvest is worth and what their fertilizer costs are decided, to a considerable extent, over there, somewhere between the grain benchmark, the dollar and the oil curve. Those forces arrive at the farm gate unannounced.

News Building a stronger plantain seed system in Cameroon: Empowering local actors to deliver healthy planting materials Plantain is a major food and income-generating crop in Cameroon, cultivated on about 303,000 hectares. Plantain farmers face challenges including pests and diseases, declining soil fertility, limited access to quality planting materials, low productivity, and climate variability.

News When citizen science strengthens breeding: Award-winning research provides new evidence of tricot’s social impact When farmers participate in crop breeding as citizen scientists, their knowledge and experience can shape which varieties are advanced and released. But participation can also strengthen farmers’ own knowledge, agency and leadership...