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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 hungerÂ
14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms: Can climate-smart agriculture produce gender equality?
06.03.20As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on…
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Root and tuber crops have a central role to play in building resilience in Asian agri-food systems
05.03.20As developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and its impact on agriculture,…
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Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
05.03.20-
Health
In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…
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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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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
04.03.20-
Food security
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…
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Time to change the system: Researchers reveal experiences in a biased world
04.03.20An excerpt from our upcoming podcast: [audio mp3="https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2020/03/IW…
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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
03.03.20-
Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
03.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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Studying the potato’s water needs for more efficient irrigation
02.03.20Water is essential for food production, with farming accounting for about 70 percent of global…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
02.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
02.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine-harvestable Chickpea
02.03.20Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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(Enteric methane) greenhouse gas emissions in cows are cut 25% with feed supplement (3-NOP)
01.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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