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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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From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru
09.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers say farmers need more help if they are to sell healthy farm products directly…
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Bamboo and rattan: Surprising tools for forest protection
03.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A new declaration is paving the way for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in forest conservation. …
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Cooling forest rainbow water vital contributor to farmer livelihoods
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Forests are widely recognized as critical to essential ecosystem services like clean water and air,…
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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…
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Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge
18.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
According to a new report, the growing human population and climate change are exacerbating a…
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Threat of cassava mosaic disease, strengthening resilience to climate disasters, dominate conversations between CIAT and Vietnam agricultural institutions
13.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the International Center for Tr…
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Forests and water are inseparable
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The world is facing a growing water crisis: already, 40% of the world’s population are…
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Securing East Africa’s cassava
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
02.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island
26.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Restoring degraded land is a major global challenge made more urgent by a changing climate,…
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Daniel Debouck: The man who knows his beans
21.06.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck, former CGIAR CIAT genebank manager, has dedicated 40 years of his professional life…
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Reversing Land Degradation by Scaling up Evergreen Agriculture in Africa (Regreening Africa)
20.06.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The UN General Assembly declared 17th June the World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) to…
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Decaying Belgian Congo–era maps reveal secrets of valuable African tree
07.06.18-
Biodiversity
In the dusty library of a research station on the Congo River, a decaying map…
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Adaptable, productive Unica: a potato for farmers around the world
25.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alejandro Verastegui’s family has been farming potatoes commercially in Jauja Province, in Peru’…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook: delivering biodiversity knowledge in the information age
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
The Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook is a new framework to deliver biodiversity knowledge. Fi…
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Harmonizing crop trait data: Crop Ontology
22.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Crop Ontology provides scientists and breeders with a common language that describes crop phenotypes…
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Disrupting agricultural and tree biodiversity science – a review of Bioversity International’s 2017
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
On the International Day of Biological Diversity, which in 2018 marks 25 years of action…
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