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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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Four questions with CIMMYT’s Maize Genebank Curator
22.05.21-
Biodiversity
Seeds are a cornerstone of food security. That is why the maize and wheat genebanks…
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How biodiversity conservation can help manage future pandemics — for plants and for humans
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
About a year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic fully seeped into our lives, The Counter…
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Dryland crop technology to rescue drought-hit crop-livestock farmers in Zimbabwe
21.05.21-
Food security
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Health
Climate change-induced droughts in Zimbabwe over the last two decades has hit resource-poor farmers …
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A conservation conversation
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
Germplasm banks around the world are protectors of genetic diversity, altogether preserving roughly …
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Model: Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
20.05.21-
Food security
BY EMILY SCHMIDT AND PAUL DOROSH In general, the COVID-19 pandemic has had only modest impacts…
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IRRI welcomes new Board of Trustees’ Chair and Vice-Chair
20.05.21Following the successful terms of IRRI Board of Trustees (BOT) Chair Jim Godfrey and Vice-Chair…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Food security
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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The Pollination Services of Forests
20.05.21-
Biodiversity
Since they are a vital part of the reproduction process of many plants, a decline…
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Charting a productive, sustainable future for small farms amid food system transformation
19.05.21-
Food security
BY XINSHEN DIAO,THOMAS REARDON, ADAM KENNEDY AND JESSICA WALLACH While urbanization is shrinking ru…
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G+ Tools Provide a Clearer View to Crop Breeding
19.05.21-
Big data
In this famous optical illusion, some people see a rabbit, while others see a duck.…
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Global Food and Hunger Challenges Projected to Increase Mortality, Disability by 2050
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Report…
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Boosting Malawi’s aquaculture production for food security
18.05.21-
Biodiversity
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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
Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…
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ACIAR Australia video highlights successful investments in global wheat research
18.05.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), a longtime partner of the C…
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Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…
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Working to make gender research actionable in Honduras
18.05.21-
Environmental health
Given the challenge of making gender approaches and concepts actionable, especially the concept of w…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
17.05.21-
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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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
17.05.21-
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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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Benin joins PABRA to introduce sustainable bean research for development in West Africa
17.05.21Did you know that almost 80 percent of Benin’s 11.2 million people earn a living…
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