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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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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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Economic impact of COVID-19 on tourism and remittances: Insights from Egypt
01.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY CLEMENS BREISINGER, ABLA ABDEL LATIF, MARIAM RAOUF AND MANFRED WIEBELT As COVID-19 reaches eve…
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COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade
31.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor…
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COVID19 Highlights Need To Ensure Good Nutrition
31.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This well-known quote from Hippocrates…
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Nutrix – the big reach of small fish in nourishing Cambodia
31.03.20-
Nutrition
Lyndon Paul offers a tube-shaped wafer for me to try. It fractures as I bite,…
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From sledgehammer to scalpel: Scientists say a ‘moonshot effort’ is needed to end social distancing and this pandemic
31.03.20-
Health
Earthrise, as seen from Apollo 8, Dec 1968 (photo credit: astronaut William Anders). Scientists say…
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Lockdowns are protecting China’s rural families from COVID-19, but the economic burden is heavy
30.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Scott Rozelle, Heather Rahimi, Huan Wang and Eve Dill COVID-19 lockdowns have major impacts on…
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Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how COVID-19 may Impact Food and Nutrition Security
30.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Stuart Gillespie and Alan Whiteside Given the speed at which COVID-19 is spreading, we must…
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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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Meeting in The Gambia delivers Banjul Tree Cover Resolution: ‘Every day that we delay comes at a cost’
30.03.20-
Food security
On 20-21 February, the Government of The Gambia, under its Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation P…
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Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities
30.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a ten-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good…
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COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some…
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Policy seminar: Sustainable trade and the EU-Mercosur Agreement
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In 2019, the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay)…
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First Lady of Niger leads millet movement
27.03.20-
Health
Niger recently celebrated the second annual International Millet Festival (FESTIMIL), aimed a…
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Chinese livestock farms struggle under COVID-19 restrictions
26.03.20-
Food security
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Health
After the COVID-19 outbreak began in December in Hubei Province, many Chinese villages were locked…
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Reflections on Uganda’s seed systems: building opportunities and addressing constraints
25.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
A blog by the RTB seed system research cluster to reflect on lessons from field…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Vaccines against this year’s novel (and world-changing) coronavirus are already in development and being tested—Good news from Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty
25.03.20-
Health
Positive news! While some COVID-19 surges are now ‘baked-in’, and we must prepare ourselves for…
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