Sowing Seeds of Change, Joining Forces to build resilience in agricultural communities by integrating climate, peace, and security
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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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New common bean varieties to benefit African women and children
17.05.21Good progress has been made in the first 12 months of an innovative project linking…
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Gender and Nutrition considerations in Demand Led Breeding: Experiences from Rwanda
17.05.21Participatory plant breeding is not new in Rwanda. Its history can be traced between 1988…
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How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia
17.05.21Chickpea farmers have adopted new varieties to achieve commercialisation, say scientists The use of …
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19
14.05.21-
Big data
The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations
14.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…
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Putting One Health into practice: A call to action for animal health
14.05.21-
Health
Action for Animal Health is a new coalition that aims to secure greater support for…
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Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
13.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND CYNTHIA PAZ Global patterns and local variations of COVI…
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
12.05.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JAWOO KOO, CLAUDIA RINGLER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH AND CARLO AZZARRI India’s devastating second wave o…
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Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds
11.05.21-
Food security
In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biolo…
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Policy responses to COVID-19: What worked and how to build resilience for the future
11.05.21-
Food security
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT, DANIELLE RESNICK, NICHOLA NAYLOR AND JESSICA WALLACH The COVID-19 pandemic has pr…
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IITA holds Climate Smart Agriculture awareness session for local-level policymakers
11.05.21As part of efforts to ensure sustainability and scalability of efforts to build capacity in…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Farmers’ Hubs for quality seed and input supply and market linkage launched in Nigeria
11.05.21The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) launched 13 Farmers’ Hubs to service 13…
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Public and private sector scientists pick pearl millet material for their breeding programs
11.05.21Public and private sector scientists visited 20,000 pearl millet breeding plots at ICRISAT this week…
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Vietnam’s MARD minister calls on promotion of climate-smart practices to reduce GHG emissions at COP26’s Ministerial Dialogue
10.05.2126 April 2021 - Mr. Le Minh Hoan, Leader of Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and…
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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
08.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation
07.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…
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