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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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A gender-responsive tool for better pest and disease management
04.03.22-
Gender equality
Women play a vital role in agriculture, especially in developing countries, but because technologies…
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Eswatini releases orange fleshed sweetpotatoes variety
02.03.22-
Nutrition
Food insecurity and malnutrition are significant challenges facing the Kingdom of Eswatini, primaril…
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Dr. Oscar Ortiz named Director General ad interim of the International Potato Center
01.03.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Following the untimely passing of Dr. Barbara Wells on 16 February last, the Board of…
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CGIAR Mourns Barbara H. Wells, Leading Expert in Genetic Innovation, Agriculture, and Forestry Research
17.02.22In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Wells helped improve the health…
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Targeting a neglected threat to potato production in Africa
14.02.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With an ability to produce more food per hectare than most crops, the potato has…
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CIP’s 50th Anniversary Celebrates Andean Agrobiodiversity
10.02.22-
Biodiversity
Anniversaries are occasions to commemorate the past while looking to the future, to mark the…
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Progress and promise with orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ethiopia
01.02.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mohammed Yusuf walks out of an unfinished house with no roof and heads to his…
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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato is key to positive change in Ethiopia
24.01.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Umer Yusuf is an energetic farmer living in Bishan Babilie in Ethiopia. Like many farmers…
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Potatoes in rice paddies?
20.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Sustainable intensification yields multiple benefits in China With approximately 19% of the global p…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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Using drones to select drought-tolerant sweetpotatoes
21.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Droughts have long posed a threat to farmers in southern Africa, and models predict they w…
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The pandemic, labour migration and the roles of small-scale farming in rural Vietnam
17.12.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The impacts of COVID-19 have been various and multi-fold, reaching into every sector of our…
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Updated Pest Risk Atlas will build climate resilience for all
15.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The impacts of climate change continue to affect agriculture with serious implications for food and…
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Ensuring long-term conservation of crop biodiversity
15.12.21-
Biodiversity
With the world on track for an average temperature increase of more than 1.5 ºC and the popul…
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of late blight prevention in China
09.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Now in its seventh year, the AsiaBlight Network is committed to finding solutions to ward off an…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
22.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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Seeking solutions to shortages of quality seed
11.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Studies in three Africa countries validate the value of seed system tools Seed systems are essen…
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Collaborations Fuel Late Blight Research in China
09.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Late blight disease costs potato farmers an estimated USD 3-10 billion per year globally. Farmers…
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