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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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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself? A New Entry Point to An Old Question.
21.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This post originally appeared in African Leadership Magazine Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself: Th…
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Groundwater and sustainable development
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
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The genetic improvement of cowpea: Develop high-yielding varieties
21.02.19-
Nutrition
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals is working on genetic improvement of…
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Launching today—CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Launching today in Kenya is a CGIAR AMR Hub for powering global, national and local…
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New research partnership to tackle the global problem of antimicrobial resistance
21.02.19-
Health
To tackle the growing problem of rising antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries…
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Does aflatoxin stunt child growth? Evidence from the first randomized trial
21.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Current evidence on the link between aflatoxin and stunting is limited to observational research. A…
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AfricaRice Science Week 2019 adopts a forward-looking perspective
19.02.19-
Food security
Over five days, more than 70 participants, consisting mainly of AfricaRice scientists, as well as…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
19.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
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New infographics illustrate impact of wheat blast
18.02.19-
Food security
Wheat blast is a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease that threatens food safety and security…
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Water security for sustainable dryland development
18.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The search for options to boost water productivity…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
15.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
14.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
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The critical and complex need to address food safety in Africa
13.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Solving the health problems of foodborne disease in Africa is only part of the food…
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New paper explores green growth strategy for the Philippines
12.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
A new paper examines the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippin…
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Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
11.02.19-
Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
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