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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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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
17.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Economic growth and decent work from natural resources: how Sustainable Development Goal 8 will affect forests and forest-dependent livelihoods
16.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scientists argue that forests will only remain standing if the world changes its paradigm of…
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When pastures are not green in the eyes of the youth
06.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When you go to the Philippines’ Cordillera Administrative Region, your initial reaction might be t…
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2020 Call for Proposals
16.12.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ca…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
13.12.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
12.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that…
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The crippling of the multilateral trading system
10.12.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As of today (Dec. 10), the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has…
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African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana
06.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) was launched recently to bring together plant breeders…
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Unveiling the Honghe Innovation Centre for Mountain Futures
05.12.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The sunlight struggled to pierce the dusty air. Faint rows of mango and jujube trees…
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Capacity building for Africa’s future agrifood system: challenges and the way forward
03.12.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An expert panel at the recent African Conference of Agricultural Economists discussed what should be…
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Do smallholders get the right seed and inputs from their agrodealer?
28.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Many Tanzanian smallholder farmers fail to produce even 1 ton of maize grain per hectare.…
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Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean
25.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The social upheavals occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have equally impacted co…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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Spotlight on Village Seed Entrepreneurs making money from cassava stems in Nigeria
21.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In March of 2019, we visited Village Seed Entrepreneurs (VSEs) in Benue State, Nigeria, that…
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Million Farmers' School program can be a key element in doubling Indian farmer's incomes
15.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes…
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How do earthquakes shape economic behavior?
14.11.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The economic cost of natural disasters is usually expressed in physical terms: Destruction of assets…
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From Knowledge to Income – Martha Lawrance is recognised as a leading sweetpotato vine multiplier
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Martha Lawrance is a 49-year-old woman from the Chogsia, Wa West District of the Upper…
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New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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