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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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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
28.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major…
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WEBINAR: Do medium and large-scale farms generate income spillovers for rural households? The case of Tanzania
26.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Land acquisitions by foreign and local investors has generated much speculation about the impacts on…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher
26.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced i…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
25.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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An agri-food revolution for tropical root and tuber crops
22.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“When, where and how will tropical root and tuber crops lead to the next agri-food…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
22.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
22.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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Discussion paper: What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
18.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the princi…
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In the press: Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
17.10.18-
Food security
Thomson Reuters News Foundation published an op-ed Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Ini…
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Applying the science of scaling
17.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new RTB initiative is applying the science of scaling to accelerate promising agricultural technol…
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Policy seminar: Extending cold chains with solar power in Nigeria
17.10.18-
Food security
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Health
In Nigeria, 45 percent of domestically produced food is lost due to spoilage, mostly because…
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Overcoming the roadblocks to ending poverty
17.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Twenty-five years after the United Nations first declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the…
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Leading female rice scientists, young researchers recognized for solutions to global food and nutrition security
17.10.18-
Food security
17 October 2018, Singapore—Female scientists and early career researchers were among the seven tra…
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