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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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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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Back to where they came from
11.02.20-
Biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has embarked on a project to return…
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Fireflies, food and future systems – scientists share inspiration behind choosing science as a lifestyle
10.02.20-
Gender equality
Plant breeding, genetics, math and software development are all stereotypically male fields. For too…
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Ten new CIMMYT-developed maize varieties released in Pakistan
05.02.20-
Food security
Pakistan’s maize sector achieved a remarkable milestone in 2019 by releasing ten new maize varieti…
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Include small indigenous productions systems to improve rural livelihoods
04.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Uni…
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Conservation agriculture is helping farmers adapt to climate change: Lessons from southern Africa
29.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Christian Thierfelder, senior cropping systems agronomist at the International Maize and Wheat Impro…
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What is conservation agriculture?
23.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
If not practiced sustainably, agriculture can have a toll on the environment, produce greenhouse gas…
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New project strengthens capacity to fight fall armyworm in Bangladesh
22.01.20-
Food security
Hundreds of agricultural professionals in Bangladesh were trained in the latest fall armyworm manage…
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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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Study calls for better understanding of fertilizer prices faced by African smallholder farmers
15.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. This is in large part because of…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
06.01.20-
Big data
In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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Prevention is better than cure
16.12.19-
Food security
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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What is wheat blast?
11.12.19-
Food security
There are no widely available resistant varieties, and fungicides are expensive and provide only a…
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Screening cycle for deadly MLN virus set to begin in Kenya in January 2020
09.12.19-
Food security
The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya, will begin…
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Agricultural solutions to tackle humanity’s climate crisis
06.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
More than 11,000 scientists signed on to a recent report showing that planet Earth is facing a…
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Nurture soil as our food and climate insurance
05.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kassim Massi and Joyce Makawa have learned how conservation agriculture nurtures the soil of their…
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Scaling out climate-smart agriculture in southern Africa
04.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Adoption rates for climate-smart agricultural practices remain low in many of the countries which st…
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