🌾 Not long ago, watering crops meant hours of carrying heavy buckets 🪣 💦
@IFPRI shows how “irrigation as a service” shifts access (not ownership), cutting labor and opening opportunities for women farmers 👩 https://on.cgiar.org/3PmXqXl
🇮🇳 👩 In India, a Women's Self-Help group is leasing a pond to cultivate mola - a nutrient-rich fish that can be eaten whole. Packed with vitamin A, iron, calcium and essential micronutrients, it plays a powerful role in improving child nutrition 🐟
@websedgetv.bsky.social @worldfish.bsky.social
On the ground at the #OneHealthSummit, Hung Nguyen of @ILRI explains how a #OneHealth approach drives solutions - from food safety to antimicrobial resistance 🧑🌾 🐄 🌱 Connecting human, animal and environmental health is key to tackling today’s risks.
#OneHealth recognizes that the health of people, animals and the environment is connected — and that solutions need to work across the whole system.
Learn more: oneplanetsummit.fr/en/events-16/one-health-...
#WorldHealthDay @bioversityciat.bsky.social @ilri.org
📸 What if a photo could help reduce food waste? 🍅🗑️
🇳🇬 🤖In Nigeria, @ifpri.org is using AI to track tomato quality from farm to market, identifying when and where produce goes bad. This approach could help reduce waste and ensure more food actually reaches people 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/48bal50
👩🌾 Bringing better crops to smallholder farmers in half the time 🌾 Because in a changing climate, time matters #WithScienceWeCan
@irriofficial.bsky.social @websedgetv.bsky.social
🇮🇳💧Water challenges need new ideas. If you’re working on water, this is your moment to scale it 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4rJCR4L
@iwmi.bsky.social launched the National Water Innovation Hackathon in India, calling on youth, startups and communities to bring forward real solutions.
✨ Today the Africa Food System Forum launched its 20th edition ✨
This year's theme: Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems. Growing Jobs, Nourishing Nations, Building Resilience.
From CGIAR, Namukolo Covic is there as the conversation on what comes next begins #AFSForum2026 #AFSLaunch
🎤CGIAR at the #OneHealthSummit in Lyon: food systems research linking people, animals & planet. @ilri.org DG Appolinaire Djikeng will speak on integrated, evidence-based #OneHealth solutions.
📄 See the schedule 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4sHGg5h
@bioversityciat.bsky.social
💦 🇵🇰 In Pakistan, @iwmi.bsky.social is using flux towers like a stethoscope to capture real-time data on water use, carbon and energy directly from the field. Decisions on irrigation can be based on what’s actually happening on the ground, not estimates 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4cXggy7
A new peer-reviewed tool developed by HarvestPlus and partners provides the first standardized, replicable way to estimate the reach and national coverage of biofortified foods.
Learn more in this recent blog: https://on.cgiar.org/4bh6pBU
@cgiar.org
#ICYMI Did you miss this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series?
📌 Farmer-Centric AI for Livestock Systems: Design, Explainability, and Responsible Innovation
📺 Watch the recording here: https://on.cgiar.org/4ltqBDT
@cgiar.org
🍅 A pilot assessment in Jos, Nigeria, collected extensive visual and other data across multiple tomato varieties to train and validate an AI image analysis system that will evaluate tomato quality and quantify post‑harvest losses.
🖱️ Learn more in this blog: https://on.cgiar.org/48bal50
@cgiar.org
Often, gender norms shape who has access to land, time, opportunities. CGIAR researchers are turning these invisible rules into simple card and board games to help farmers see and challenge them🎲 https://on.cgiar.org/40RZrNB
#GenderInAg #FoodSystems
In Zanzibar anchovies are affordable nutrition for low-income households 🐟 As demand and exports rise, more of it leaves local plates. Can we improve processing and incomes without putting nutrition at risk? 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4swGVqm
@worldfish.bsky.social
🌾 🧑🌾 Crop-destroying pests are on the rise. 🌍 In Ghana, this yam farmer is turning to nature - neem leaves as a natural pesticide. A solution, rooted in local knowledge, helping keep crops healthy and food systems resilient.
#TheClimateAndUs
@bbcstoryworks.bsky.social @aiccra.bsky.social
💧This #WorldWaterDay, we’re reminded: protecting water means protecting life 🐦⬛ 🐟 🐃
@iwmi.bsky.social delivers solutions to enable, scale and accelerate outcomes for water security beyond research.
#TheClimateAndUs
@bbcstoryworks.bsky.social @bioversityciat.bsky.social
💧 This World Water Day 2026, CGIAR celebrates water’s power to transform lives & empower women. In partnership with @iwmi.bsky.social, we advance equitable water access, gender-inclusive solutions & resilient communities.
👉 on.cgiar.org/4cZ4aEA
#WorldWaterDay2026 #GenderAndWater
🐄 🍼 Milk doesn’t start in a supermarket. It starts with farmers navigating climate pressures, shifting demand and adapting in real time to keep food systems moving.
🔬 With the right science and support from @ilri.org, they’re sustaining and strengthening supply 🥛🌍
@bbcstoryworks.bsky.social
📢📢 #NowHiring! CGIAR has opportunities across science, communications, finance, and leadership. Join our staff working in 70+ countries to deliver science and innovation for a food‑secure future.
Explore roles & apply today. https://www.cgiar.org/careers#Vacancies
🙍♀️ 🌾 Women are already leading agrifood systems.
So why are their contributions still overlooked?
Real-world action in India is helping unlock women’s leadership and build stronger, more inclusive food systems 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4bs6wcC
@bioversityciat.bsky.social
💧🌾 For women farmers, growing rice means navigating uncertainty - water levels, climate shifts and limited access to resources and knowledge. When women have access to information, tools and opportunities, they don’t just grow crops. They strengthen food systems for all.
@irriofficial.bsky.social
👨🔬 👩🔬When new challenges emerge, from diseases to nutrition needs, scientists return to the gene bank to find the traits that can help develop stronger, more resilient rice for the future 🌾 🔬
@irriofficial.bsky.social
CGIAR #IntheNews: @cgiar-emd.bsky.social Ismahane Elouafi recognized in @forbes.com Brazil #IWD2026 10 Women Who Are Nurturing the Future and Regenerating the Planet
(Article in Portuguese)
forbes.com.br/forbes-agro/2026/03/10-m...
🇰🇭 Cambodia has made aquatic foods a national priority 🐟 From community fish refuges to rice-fish farming, local innovations are shaping national policy and strengthening nutrition and livelihoods.
Read the whole story 👉 https://on.cgiar.org/4buHfPc
@worldfish.bsky.social
Food security is strategic security.
In a new op-ed, Bram Govaerts, Director General of CIMMYT, explains why resilient agriculture is key to global stability.
📖 Read the op-ed: https://bit.ly/4bDji9l
🌾 The Asia & the Pacific Food Systems Forum 2026 will unite leaders and innovators to scale action for a resilient, sustainable food future.
📍 Manila | 🗓️ March 16–19 |
https://on.cgiar.org/47ytc9P
@irriofficial.bsky.social @ilri.org @bioversityciat.bsky.social @cipotato.org @ifpri.org
How will the conflict in Iran affect food security? A new blog by @ifpri.org expert @jwglauber.bsky.social explores the possible regional and global impacts
https://on.cgiar.org/4ldjpMf
Maize is more than a crop in East Africa - it’s food, livelihoods and daily life 🌽 @cimmyt.bsky.social is developing high-yielding maize varieties built for today’s realities: drought, low soil fertility, pests and diseases like MLN and fall armyworm.
📢 There is still time to register for this #webinar in the AI for Food Systems Research series:
📌 Large Language Models for Policy Makers: Exploring RIAPA-AI and PEPA-AI
📆 March 12, 2026, 9:00 – 10:00 am EDT
🎫 https://on.cgiar.org/4ldu7SX
@cgiar.org
