CGIAR Board Chair Travel and Meetings Update
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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
CGIAR24.06.24-
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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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
CGIAR30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
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Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
CGIAR18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
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Opinion: If COP 27 Ignores Farmers, Global Food Security will Suffer
CGIAR15.11.22We are already living in a world that is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times,…
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CGIAR Welcomes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1.4 Billion Pledge to Climate Adaptation
CGIAR10.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-income country leaders gathered at COP27 have repeatedly called for climate finance to support t…
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CGIAR Country, Region and Funding Partners Signal Strong Support for Integration
CGIAR09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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Diversifying aquaculture systems to nourish nations
WorldFish29.07.21-
Nutrition
Shakuntala Thilsted, recipient of the 2021 World Food Prize, explains why diverse aquatic food produ…
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Bold actions for gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.07.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Somewhere in rural South Asia, a very enterprising woman toils for about…
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Climate-smart innovations provide a window of opportunity to transform aquatic food systems
WorldFish28.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In this op-ed, WorldFish scientist Dr. Peerzadi Rumana Hossain explains how aquatic food innovations…
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Defeating potato late blight with farmers’ help in Uganda
International Potato Center (CIP)27.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Successful innovation for agriculture will depend on thorough and careful understanding of the asp…
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Protecting plants will protect people and the planet
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.07.21-
Food security
Understanding the relationship between climate change and plant health is key to conserving biodiv…
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Targeted Breeding to Defeat Drug Resistant Gastrointestinal Worms in Sheep
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)27.07.21Tuesday, July 27, 2021 By Dr. Mourad Rekik - Principal Scientist - Small Ruminant Physiology Tunis…
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Crops to End Hunger: Accelerating Seed Delivery through Sustainable Seed Systems
International Potato Center (CIP)26.07.21-
Food security
Looking ahead, food system researchers and national governments around the world are concerne…
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First high oleic groundnut cultivars commercialized in India
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)26.07.21There is a demand for high-oleic groundnut varieties particularly by the food processing industry fo…
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Strengthening Public Breeding Pipelines by Emphasizing Quantitative Genetics Principles and Open Source Data Management
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)26.07.21-
Big data
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Food security
This opinion piece published in Frontiers in Plant Science briefly presents the breeder's equation a…
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CRP-GLDC Golden Eggs contribute to ‘healthy diets’, ‘management tools and ‘scaling methods’
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)26.07.21What are Golden Eggs? The R4D “products” developed during 10 years of CGIAR’s Research Program…
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New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
CGIAR26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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Scientific breakthrough shows promise for disease-resistant tilapia
WorldFish24.07.21Researchers identified a region of the Nile tilapia genome associated with viral resilience, which c…
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Rwandan farmers help validate and disseminate new potato varieties
International Potato Center (CIP)23.07.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The triadic comparisons of technologies – or tricot – approach is being used in a citizen-…
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An example of best practice
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.07.21-
Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is contributing to make Mexico’s agr…
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Biodiversity in EU agricultural landscapes goes from science to strategy
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)23.07.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Biodiversity is a vital factor in agricultural landscapes, with an importance that cuts across the…
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Five actions to strengthen the contribution of fish to food systems in Zambia
WorldFish23.07.21-
Nutrition
A review of the actions needed to enhance the contributions of fish and aquatic foods…
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Climate insurance solutions workshop held for industry professionals in Sri Lanka
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)23.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Experts in remote sensing shared the latest innovations in digital data with insurance professionals…
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Food system sustainability relies on potato’s “wild relatives”
International Potato Center (CIP)22.07.21-
Food security
Looking ahead to the next 50 years, potato researchers and farmers have significant concerns about…
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