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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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Four questions with CIMMYT’s Maize Genebank Curator
22.05.21-
Biodiversity
Seeds are a cornerstone of food security. That is why the maize and wheat genebanks…
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A conservation conversation
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
Germplasm banks around the world are protectors of genetic diversity, altogether preserving roughly …
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Digitization equipment set to accelerate Kenya’s breeding programs
04.05.21Last month, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform handed over digitization equipment to th…
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CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
29.04.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) have…
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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
23.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announced a new three-year public–pr…
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Many birds with one stone
19.04.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Ethiopia, farming systems rely heavily on animal and human power, reducing productivity and effic…
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Far-reaching impacts
12.04.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 1966, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted a training event tha…
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On-farm nitrogen management practices have global reverberations
10.04.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
An international team of scientists has strengthened our understanding of how better fertilizer mana…
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World Health Day 2021
07.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Health has certainly been in the spotlight over the past year. And how could it…
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Nepal launches digital soil map
07.04.21-
Big data
A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties…
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Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship
07.04.21-
Big data
Quantifying agricultural productivity relies on measures of crop production and land area. Those mea…
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Investment in maize for Africa pays off
30.03.21-
Food security
Between 1995-2015, nearly 60% of all maize varieties released in 18 African countries were CGIAR-rel…
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How do we sustainably manage transboundary diseases and crop pests?
25.03.21-
Environmental health
In our hyper-connected world, it should come as no surprise that recent years have shown…
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What is nixtamalization?
23.03.21-
Nutrition
For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known…
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CIMMYT to dedicate historic wheat experimental station to Sanjaya Rajaram
18.03.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) will rename one of its most historic…
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A knowledge revolution
12.03.21The key to transforming food production systems globally lies in knowledge management processes, acc…
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Power steering
10.03.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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