🌾 🔬 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.
📺 https://on.cgiar.org/45HaDPT
#WithScienceWeCan #FoodSystems
🌿 In rural India, women farmers are transforming small backyard plots into diverse, climate-resilient homestead farms. Production diversity is up 350%. Diet diversity has doubled.
@iwmi.bsky.social
https://on.cgiar.org/4b4zv6i
21 women. 8+ countries. One mission: protect the planet that feeds us. ❄️🌍
Meet the Breaking Boundaries 2026 Antarctica team + global leaders at our #IWD2026 event.
⏲ March 6, 15:00 UTC
✅ https://on.cgiar.org/4aKY60V
#OneCGIAR #WomeninScience
🧬 What once took 4 years can now take less than 1. With doubled haploid technology, breeders can develop pure inbred lines faster—accelerating the creation of high-performing hybrid varieties for farmers. @cimmyt.bsky.social
Studies show that direct seeded rice (which include Komboka) significantly reduce methane emissions.
Find out more from @irriofficial.bsky.social on their work to reduce emissions from rice production: ghgmitigation.irri.org
📢 There is still time to register for this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series:
📌 Two Sides of the Data Governance Coin: AI Innovation and Regulation for Producers and Users
📆 March 5, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST
🎫 Register here: https://on.cgiar.org/4rzCZ7A
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#Climate finance for #agrifood systems is still far below what’s needed—but clearer financial standards can help close the gap. 🌍💰
Read how harmonized taxonomies + green bonds can drive real change for farmers → www.ifpri.org/blog/financi...
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📢 Work with CGIAR!
Around the world, our staff are making an impact in the face of the interdependent challenges facing today’s world.
🔍 Explore vacancies across all CGIAR research centers: https://on.cgiar.org/4rBIByb
📷 @iwmi.bsky.social
🌾 📲A new digital backbone for agriculture that supports real-time, climate-smart decisions in India 🇮🇳 It turns fragmented information into decision-ready intelligence for farmers facing droughts, floods, pests and volatile markets 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4b8u7A1
@iwmi.bsky.social
🚜 👩🌾 Komboka rice is a game changer:
✦ Nearly double the yield of older varieties
✦ Matures earlier
✦ Lower water use, labor and production costs
✦ Improved resistance to blast and bacterial leaf blight
Built for the climate we have - not the one we had.
@giz.de
❄️ Two CGIAR genebanks are depositing to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week!
🌳🌴 107 accessions of trees from @cifor-icraf.org
🌾🌱 1,164 accessions of wheat, barley, chickpea, lentils, triticale from #ICARDA
@nordgen.bsky.social
@croptrust.bsky.social
@norad.no
@planttreaty.bsky.social
🌽 New publication!
New research by Chun Song et al. (2026) shows that subnational food demand trends often move in the opposite direction of national projections.
OA link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/K5CVJE...
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📢 An important milestone for global action on nature, climate, and food systems!
Proud to announce a new #IUCN - @cgiar.org partnership, focused on sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation to shape resilient food systems.
🔗 https://lnkd.in/ddKDRniq
📢 Save the date!
📌 Two Sides of the Data Governance Coin: AI Innovation and Regulation for Producers and Users
📆 March 5, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am EST
🎫 Register here: https://on.cgiar.org/4rzCZ7A
@cgiar.org
🆕 #Blog Anti-poverty programs can change how people see the state and each other
🖊️ By Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo.
🔗 Read more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3P1kpH2
@cgiar.org
🔬 🐄 Through science-driven practical innovation, ILRI is working alongside farming communities in Africa to strengthen livestock systems & protect animal health.
Safeguarding livestock means safeguarding food security, income and stability for millions.
@ilri.org @websedgetv.bsky.social
🇩🇪 🎙️ As global leaders gathered at the @munsecconf.bsky.social, one truth was impossible to ignore: addressing hunger is not just a development priority. It is essential to peace, stability and resilience 🌱
#FoodSecurity #MSC2026
🔎 Learn more about our work on social protection:
www.ifpri.org/topic/social-protection/
@cgiar.org #SocialJusticeDay #SocialProtection #FoodSecurity
🆕 #Blog Can digital cash transfers serve those in active conflict zones? Evidence from Sudan
🖊️ By Kibrom Abay, Lina Abdelfattah, Hala Abushama, Oliver Kiptoo Kirui, Halefom Nigus, and Khalid Siddig.
Read more: https://on.cgiar.org/4b0TP9z
@cgiar.org @voxdev.bsky.social
#ICYMI Did you see this #IFPRIPolicySeminar?
📌 IFPRI-AMIS Seminar Series: Navigating Risk: Challenges in Agricultural Commodity Shipping and Insurance Markets
🤝 Organized by IFPRI and Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS)
📺 Watch the recording here: https://bit.ly/AgriRisk
@cgiar.org
🌱 Formally including Ugandan women in commercial agriculture can increase women’s empowerment without reducing productivity, and with positive spillovers for household welfare and gender relations.
Learn more in this recent blog: https://on.cgiar.org/3LU2GjP
@cgiar.org @voxdev.bsky.social
💻 The large language models (LLMs) that power most artificial intelligence chatbots rely on vast datasets and billions of parameters to produce their human-like outputs. The quality of available data for building gen AI models is critical.
Learn more: https://on.cgiar.org/462huU7
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The UAE– @gatesfoundation.bsky.social AI Ecosystem for Global Agricultural Development is advancing AI for food & water security. Through this ecosystem, IWMI, via @cgiar.org AI Hub, is building AI tools for water resilience to support farmers & climate-smart decisions 👉 on.cgiar.org/3MUj7Nt
Africa’s water future depends on digital innovation and inclusive collaboration, as shown at the Pan-African Symposium, which brought policymakers, researchers, & communities together to build climate resilience 👉 on.cgiar.org/4s0Pqt2
@helmsleytrust.bsky.social @cgiar.org
🆕 #Blog How gendered is farm technology adoption? Evidence from India
🖋️ By Kajal Gulati, Nicholas Magnan, Travis J. Lybbert, and David Spielman.
🖱️ Read more here: https://on.cgiar.org/3Oosc1B
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📚 Just published: A new analysis shows 23 years of CGIAR #ResearchImpact: 42k+ publications, high citation performance, strong SDG alignment, global collaboration, and the highest policy uptake among peer institutions.
🔗 https://on.cgiar.org/4tRuma5
#WithScienceWeCan
CGIAR is joining forces with #IUCN to advance sustainable, nature‑positive food systems, focused on:
• 🌿 Landscapes
• 🌾 Farming & aquatic foods
• 💧 Climate & water
• 🧭 Policy support
https://on.cgiar.org/46lh1g8
Rice fields can do more than grow grain 🌾 In Cambodia they help farmers capture water, raise fish, diversify crops and build resilience to climate shocks. @worldfish.bsky.social
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As the world’s largest publicly funded agrifood research network, CGIAR is committed to stewarding AI so it strengthens food security and equity.
Learn how we’re making AI work for farmers in @science.org 👉
https://on.cgiar.org/4tquKfs
"Used responsibly, AI can amplify the impact of our work, rather than its own flaws." - Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR
“AI can transform agricultural research, as long as we remain realistic about its capabilities and grounded about its risks,” writes @cgiar-emd.bsky.social in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/4aDqIYu
