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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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Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
08.05.20-
Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT, ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN In many developing countries, women ofte…
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Ethiopian wheat farmers adopt quality seed and a vision for a more profitable future
30.04.20-
Food security
High-yielding, disease-resistant wheat varieties used by Ethiopian wheat farmers between 2015 and 20…
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In the best possible taste
29.04.20-
Food security
The pursuit for higher and more stable yields, alongside better stress tolerance, has dominated maiz…
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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security
13.04.20While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
08.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Crossing boundaries
07.04.20Daily life as we know it has grinded to a halt and crop scientists are…
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Wheat curl mites: What are they and how can we fight them?
01.04.20The wheat curl mite, a pesky wheat pest which can cause up to 100% yield…
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ICARDA’s Mustapha El-Bouhssini explains how crop pests are moving in a warming world
26.03.20Insect resistance in plants is needed now more than ever. The UN, which has named…
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Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
25.03.20-
Gender equality
Women play a crucial role in Ethiopian agriculture. A significant portion of their time is…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Breaking Ground: Aparna Das leads efficient and demand-driven maize research
25.03.20Getting a good maize harvest, or just enough to feed the family, has always been…
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Crowdsourced data feeds fall armyworm surveillance in Bangladesh
20.03.20-
Food security
Following the spread of fall armyworm, crowdsourced data is powering a web-based application to he…
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Systems thinking at work in South Asia’s food production
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2009, state governments in Northwest India implemented a policy designed to reduce groundwater ex…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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