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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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Ceres2030 research: Ending hunger sustainably by 2030 requires doubling assistance
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY MARIE PARENT New research concludes that donor country governments must roughly double current am…
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Book launch: Ethiopia’s evolving agrifood system faces new challenges
13.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF Over the past two decades, Ethiopia’s economy has seen wide-ranging changes. Agr…
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HarvestPlus Webinar Focused on Path for Scaling Up Biofortification Amid COVID-19
13.10.20-
Food security
HarvestPlus hosted a webinar on “Improving Nutrition Security with Biofortified Crops: Lessons Fro…
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In case of fall armyworm, watch this video
12.10.20-
Food security
To the first-time observer, the aftermath of a fall armyworm infestation must be terrifying. The…
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Strong Women, Strong Nation
12.10.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help…
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Empowered rural women take on entrepreneurship
09.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The COVID-19 lockdown has been hard on people across India, but particularly agonizing for families…
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En route to improved agronomic literacy
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the years of the Nepal's civil war, women in rural villages like Masuriya faced…
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Inside Ethiopia’s agricultural success story
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Ethiopia’s rapid economic and agricultural growth over the past two decades i…
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Q&A: How blockchain can create social and environmental impacts
08.10.20-
Big data
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Food security
Blockchain promises to revolutionize the economic system by changing the way we communicate over the…
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G20 agriculture and water ministers set agenda for responsible investments in agrifood systems but fail to agree on climate change language
07.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Agriculture and water ministers from the G20 countries met jointly f…
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Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
06.10.20-
Food security
Findings from a recent study (Aug 2020) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia suggest that telephone surveys…
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Knowledge brokers as a bridge between research and policy
04.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Dan McGonigle joined the UK Civil Service in 2007 as a scientific advisor. In 2015…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: What is conservation agriculture?
01.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers worldwide are increasingly adopting conservation agriculture. In the 2015/2016 season, conse…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security
30.09.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JULIE KURTZ The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while…
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Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria
30.09.20-
Food security
As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
29.09.20-
Food security
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Health
An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation
29.09.20-
Food security
BY ALAN DE BRAUW AND SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ How do different types of expenditures relate to households'…
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Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa
29.09.20-
Food security
Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…
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