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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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IRRI and partners enhance farmer livelihood through new rice straw composting technique
02.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Rice straw is a natural byproduct of rice production. Each kilogram of milled rice produces…
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Farmer-to-farmer learning is boosting aquaculture in Sierra Leone
02.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Sierra Leone, where commercial small-scale aquaculture is in its infancy, FISH is developing and…
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IRRI gathers researchers to advance breeding programs around the world
01.10.18-
Food security
IRRI together with the Excellence in Breeding (EiB) program and the Genomic Open-Source Breeding Inf…
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Can you imagine a world of waste-wise cities? Accra leads the way
01.10.18-
Environmental health
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Health
The challengeWaste is piling up in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, which is home to…
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Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods
01.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…
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Fish farmers celebrate tilapia harvest in Timor-Leste
01.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste (PADTL), a five-year project funded by …
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IFPRI Research Day: Brookings’ Homi Kharas on overcoming obstacles to meeting the SDGs
28.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, KATRINA KOSEC AND JESSICA HECKERT It’s a troubled time for global food secur…
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IFPRI report: How China and Africa can promote cooperation in agricultural modernization
28.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG AND LIWEN ZHANG Agriculture is key to improving food security and reducing poverty…
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Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation
28.09.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…
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Working to boost food production in Africa: IRRI joins hands with CGIAR sister centers to help the continent achieve 90% rice self-sufficiency by 2025
27.09.18-
Food security
28 September 2018, Kenya - Today, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) opened a new…
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Update from the field: Stories of change in nutrition in Vietnam
26.09.18-
Nutrition
Under way since September 2017, Stories of Change Vietnam aims to understand the history, contempora…
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Strengthening agricultural research in Kenya
26.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Agriculture plays a key role in Kenya’s economy and national development, accounting for 70% of…
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Video: Rice, malaria and Africa’s changing landscapes
25.09.18-
Health
Jo Lines, Reader of Malaria Control and Vector Biology at the London School of Hygiene…
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IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
25.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY DAVID ARONSON While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar works together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
24.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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Webinar: Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Lessons learned from South-South knowledge exchange
20.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this webinar on October 4, we will summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from…
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IRRI transforms rice breeding processes through market-oriented product profiling
19.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI is purposefully engaging with farmers to inform policies and establish standards that transform…
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