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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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When mothers learn from babies
08.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In Chebvute, Zimbabwe the CIMMYT has established trials to test the effectiveness and productivity o…
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Could coronavirus drive farmers to adopt sustainable practices in India’s breadbasket?
07.07.20-
Food security
June marks the start of the rice growing season in India’s breadbasket but on the…
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Annual Report 2019 launched
01.07.20The year 2019 showed us that while CIMMYT’s work may begin with seeds, our innovations…
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African small-scale mechanization project winds down after strong results
24.06.20-
Food security
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia have embraced small-scale mechanization thanks to an in…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online
09.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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Conservation agriculture feeds people and protects the environment
04.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On June 5, 2020, the world celebrates World Environment Day as COVID-19 continues to cause…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Farm mechanization under COVID-19
02.06.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the way the world operates, and agricultural production…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Food security
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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CIMMYT for Mexico in times of a global pandemic
26.05.20-
Food security
CIMMYT has been working hand in hand with Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Developmen…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Scaling up research for development in CGIAR
21.05.20-
Food security
In a bid to scale impact of its research outputs, ILRI has recently undertaken a…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
13.05.20-
Food security
A major farmer survey is gathering data to understand how smallholders in Laos are responding…
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Launching the AgriFoodTrust platform
12.05.20-
Big data
A new testing and learning platform for digital trust and transparency technologies — such as…
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