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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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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Tanzania’s female parliamentarians to mainstream gender in climate adaptation
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Climate change has been described as a wicked problem, with complexities, feedback loops and tipping…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Achieving agricultural sustainability depends on gender equality
23.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Addressing gender inequality is essential to achieving sustainability in agriculture. High levels of…
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When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t
18.10.19-
Gender equality
Anyone who doubts the power of information need look no further than the Arab Spring…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Launch of CRP-GLDC Newsletter “Gender Research in the Drylands”
15.10.19-
Gender equality
On Rural Women’s Day, 15 October 2019, CRP-GLDC launches its newsletter “Gender Research in the…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Gender equality
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Rural Women
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) celebrates the vital role that rural women play…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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Study sheds new light on roles of women and men on RTB farms
14.10.19-
Gender equality
Results from a household survey of farmers in Rwanda and Burundi challenge our stereotypes about…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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Using vignettes to understand decision-making processes within households
08.10.19-
Gender equality
Many surveys ask who in the household makes key decisions, but most fail to ask…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
03.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities…
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