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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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How a dry village got its feet wet
16.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
As Laos seeks to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods, while adapting agriculture to clima…
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Making small-scale irrigation work for women
15.01.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
As climate change makes rainfed agriculture an increasingly precarious venture, small-scale irrigati…
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Four reasons small farms are running out of water – and how we can fix it
15.01.19-
Food security
Originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters From Cape Town to California to the…
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Reducing high yield gaps with decision-support apps
15.01.19-
Big data
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Food security
Ethiopia is Africa’s third largest producer of maize, after Nigeria and South Africa. Although the…
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For Indian farmers, Direct Benefit Transfers can work better than fertilizer subsidies
14.01.19-
Food security
Technological innovations, along with price support measures and the supply of subsidized key inputs…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Making small-scale irrigation work for women
11.01.19-
Food security
What are ways to ensure small-scale irrigation technologies benefit women farmers? A new REAC…
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How can restoration help solve hunger?
09.01.19-
Food security
Landscapes need to be restored. The growing global population needs enough food to eat. How…
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Countering climate change with the cascade effect
09.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade…
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“Green manure” cover crops – why they deserve a second chance
08.01.19-
Food security
What goes around comes around! Green manure cover crops – or GMCCs, as we affectionately…
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For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help
06.01.19-
Food security
In Brazil, the tropical savanna known as the Cerrado has long been under threat from…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
04.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
04.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Experts identify policy gaps in fertilizer application in India
03.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Imbalanced application of different plant nutrients through fertilizers is a widespread problem in I…
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Too good to be true? A model for reaching poor farmers and reducing subsidy costs in Ghana
31.12.18-
Food security
It is no secret that fertilizer subsidies are back in vogue across Africa south of…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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Three new UN resolutions focus on plant health, pulses and food safety
28.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
The United Nations General Assembly has declared two new ‘International Days’ and one ‘Year’…
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