Post-Harvest Loss Solutions Hackathon: Climate-Smart, Gender-Responsive Solutions in Eastern and Southern Africa
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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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Stories of change: Analyzing aspirations of rural women and men
11.06.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Study in Kenya sought to understand where rural women and men see their opportunities and…
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Moving forward with sustainable forage-based livestock production systems in Colombia
11.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Sustainability is a word that is used more and more often these days. Although the…
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Smallholder and agrifood SME resilience to shocks: Lessons from COVID-19 for the UN Food System Summit
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the…
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A manifesto on Forgotten Foods for Asia-Pacific with farmers in focus
10.06.21Farmer collectives, research, policy and advocacy institutions in Central Asia and Asia-Pacific regi…
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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
10.06.21A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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Burkina Faso releases its first pearl millet hybrid
10.06.21High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISATand evalu…
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Gender-integrated business strategies empower women in Zambia
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Zambia, rural women play a vital role in aquaculture and related value chains, but…
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Opinion: Getting the most out of every last drop of water
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water is often held up as a precious, life-giving element for its essential role in…
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Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs
10.06.21Dr. Michael Baum, ICARDA’s Acting Deputy Director General for Research, Research Team Leader of Br…
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Changing rainfall erodes a landscape. Watershed interventions halt the downward spiral
10.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Watershed interventions have led to 1-2.5 meters higher groundwater levels, providing lifesaving irr…
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Winning, ‘climate-smart’, ways to feed India’s dairy cows—Jimmy Smith, of ILRI
09.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in Sou…
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2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies
09.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…
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African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
09.06.21-
Big data
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Food security
With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…
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Never let good waste become a crisis: lessons for the Global South
09.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
As a global society, we waste a third – 1.3 billion metric tons – of…
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New report from UN Nutrition untangles risks and benefits of food from livestock for sustainable healthy diets, focusing on challenges linked to both abundance and scarcity
08.06.21-
Health
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Nutrition
A more balanced, sustainable approach to consuming food from livestock—one that meets nutrition ne…
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ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished
08.06.21Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), today gave …
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Remote sensing for irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and pitfalls
08.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
There is growing demand for sustainable development policy that is data driven, but our unprecedente…
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Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit
08.06.21-
Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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