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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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CGIAR’s new flagship report will help decision-makers transform food, land, and water systems
17.06.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the world faces unprecedented environmental and social challenges, CGIAR—the global partnership…
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CGIAR and CIFOR-ICRAF agree to strengthened collaboration
12.06.24To address the pressing challenges facing global food systems, CGIAR and The Center for Internationa…
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CGIAR and Brazil forge new partnership to strengthen food system resilience
12.06.24In a move to enhance agricultural resilience, the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrap…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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Low-tech tool helps fight potato late blight
12.06.20-
Big data
Late blight is the most destructive potato disease in the world. It affects all potato producers…
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Late blight resistant potatoes in Uganda promise impressive returns
08.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Potato is a popular crop in Uganda with great potential for income generation and improving…
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The food supply chain has delivered; now is the time for agriculture
01.06.20-
Food security
After battling the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two months, countries have begun relaxing lockdow…
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Fighting Poverty and Malnutrition in Nigeria with Sweetpotatoes
25.05.20-
Nutrition
In an ongoing effort to lend support to Nigeria’s campaign to reduce poverty and malnutrition…
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10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
At the International Potato Center (CIP), World Biodiversity Day has special meaning for our work,…
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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
18.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond
15.05.20-
Food security
While the world addresses the important short-term effects of COVID-19 on the human population, many…
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Partnerships for improving sweetpotatoes in Africa
12.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dr. Craig Yencho’s work on improvement of sweetpotatoes in Africa was recently featured on the…
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Potatofied innovations: Developing entrepreneurial skills among farmers in Assam
04.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
There is, perhaps, no vegetable in the world as versatile as the potato. And farmers…
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South Asia women in agriculture during COVID-19
28.04.20-
Gender equality
While COVID-19 pandemic has affected the livelihoods of billions worldwide, the economic fallout of …
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As COVID-19 threatens global food security, fresh potato is back on the tables of millions
20.04.20COVID-19 is driving demand for fresh potato in supermarkets and grocery stores across the globe…
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Mapping bacterial wilt in Uganda
07.04.20Bacterial wilt is a serious threat to potato production in Uganda, and throughout Africa. But…
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World needs to keep a close watch on agriculture while battling COVID-19 pandemic
06.04.20As the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdowns and shutdowns of economies globally, countr…
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Building synergies between modernized sweetpotato breeding and seed systems for improved varieties in East and Central Africa
02.04.20-
Nutrition
SweetGAINS (Genetic Advances and Innovative Seed Systems) is a program to accelerate and expand the…
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Understanding farmer needs for new sweetpotato varieties
30.03.20-
Nutrition
Jeanne Mukasine hails from Gakenke district in the northern reaches of Rwanda, the country of…
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Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic
26.03.20As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world and disrupt the operations…
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“Every Color in My Pencil Box”
17.03.20Growing up in Assam, India, CIP researcher Sampriti Baruah remembers having potatoes with nearly eve…
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Backing up crop biodiversity collections for agriculture’s future
16.03.20-
Biodiversity
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in dep…
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