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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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'Supermarketization,' food environments, and the urban poor
23.01.20-
Food security
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Health
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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New project strengthens capacity to fight fall armyworm in Bangladesh
22.01.20-
Food security
Hundreds of agricultural professionals in Bangladesh were trained in the latest fall armyworm manage…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Harnessing the power of metabolomics to speed and improve breeding
20.01.20-
Food security
Plants produce thousands of smallish chemical compounds known as metabolites. Like a DNA fingerprint…
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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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IFPRI short video contest: Planting my path in Nepalese agriculture
16.01.20-
Food security
Second in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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Study calls for better understanding of fertilizer prices faced by African smallholder farmers
15.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. This is in large part because of…
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National and sub-national workshops, Mbale, Uganda
14.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A venue in Mbale, Eastern Uganda was selected to host the InPaC-S national workshop. It…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Food security
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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First MSc students complete A4NH-supported work on food systems for healthier diets in Ethiopia
13.01.20-
Food security
To build capacity and engagement among young researchers in Ethiopia, the Food Systems for Healthier…
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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Choosing between supermarkets and wet markets
13.01.20-
Food security
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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Sensory profiles help cassava breeders develop desirable new varieties
12.01.20-
Food security
Detailed and descriptive profiles of different kinds of gari in Benin have been established through…
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Multi-stakeholder workshops for food systems profiles at the A4NH benchmark sites along Vietnam’s rural-urban transect
10.01.20-
Food security
Between August and November 2019, three workshops were held in Vietnam to share preliminary results…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
10.01.20-
Food security
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Health
If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people
10.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
09.01.20-
Food security
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
08.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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