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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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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
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
18.11.22-
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
15.11.22We 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
10.11.22-
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
09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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ILRI research generates evidence for better prevention and control of zoonotic diseases
06.07.21-
Health
World Zoonoses Day, celebrated annually on 6 July, commemorates the day in 1885 when Louis…
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Food System Transformation Needs to Work for All: Why Youth in the Semi-Arid Drylands are Underserved in Agriculture
05.07.21Opportunities and challenges facing African youth especially in the semi-arid drylands have recently…
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ICRISAT optimizes seed-chip genotyping in groundnut
05.07.21Chips away time and cost from groundnut breeding. Researchers at ICRISAT have established seed-chip …
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Farmer preferred, market demanded and highly nutritious beans to boost Rwanda’s household diets and wealth
05.07.21Rwanda has one of the highest per capita consumption in the world, confirming that beans…
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A new dawn for agriculture with the reintroduction of 4K Clubs in Kenyan schools
05.07.21The average age of a Kenyan farmer is approximately 60 years. With a growing human…
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Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
05.07.21-
Big data
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Food security
There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts.…
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Building Food System Country Profiles to support decision-making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
05.07.21-
Food security
Much of the work on food systems to date has relied on fragmented and disparate…
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New study explores wet markets and the risk of emerging zoonotic diseases
05.07.21-
Health
In Asia, live animals as well as animal products are commonly sold in traditional markets,…
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Agriculture: The key to state-level development in Nigeria
04.07.21IITA Director General Nteranya Sanginga has highlighted the need for state governments in Nigeria to…
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IITA partners with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enhance women’s livelihoods
04.07.21On 11 June, IITA officially launched the Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector …
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IITA research fellows to partner with national research institutes for development
04.07.21The International Association of Research Scholars and Fellows (IARSAF) at IITA went on a working …
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A machine for making yam mounds?
04.07.21Yam is the “king of crops” in West Africa and one of the most important…
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Policymakers approve Aflasafe testing in Burundi
04.07.21IITA-Burundi officially unveiled Aflasafe by presenting two Aflasafe products—Aflasafe BU01, a cou…
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Banana project applauded for making record progress amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
04.07.21Malnutrition in young children and pregnant women is known to have adverse consequences on their…
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ENABLE-TAAT success story: Mentorship helps beneficiary overcome COVID-19 impact
04.07.21A beneficiary of the ENABLE-TAAT capacity development exercise has affirmed that beyond technical tr…
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Study sheds light on banana’s defense mechanism against the deadly Fusarium wilt disease
04.07.21IITA scientists have identified the defense mechanisms for Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (F…
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IITA signs Aflasafe manufacturing and distribution agreement in Mozambique
04.07.21Food safety took a step forward in Mozambique as IITA signed a Technology Transfer and Licensing A…
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Improving sweetpotatoes for larger markets in Uganda
03.07.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bernard Yada is a sweetpotato breeder with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organiz…
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