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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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Book launch: Prospects for Nepal’s agricultural transformation
17.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY REBIKA LAISHRAM Agriculture is a vital sector of Nepal’s economy, contributing about 29% to…
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No greater challenge
17.12.20-
Food security
Amidst the transition to One CGIAR and COVID-19 lockdowns, the world’s leading maize and wheat…
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10 Lessons from WHEAT in 2020
16.12.20-
Nutrition
The past year has been full of challenges but also full of insights. We invite…
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New guidelines ease the way for fish-friendly irrigation systems
16.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new set of guidelines provides practical guidance on the integration of irrigation systems with…
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Mobile app connects fish farmers with aquaculture information despite COVID-19 in Myanmar
16.12.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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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
A new mobile application is delivering crucial aquaculture information to small-scale fish farmers w…
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“Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
15.12.20-
Food security
On December 11, 2020, the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the release of six…
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Shining a brighter light on adoption and diffusion
15.12.20-
Food security
With almost all CGIAR centers represented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is considered to be a…
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Novel and effective technique to control Banana Xanthomonas wilt is suitable for Rwandan agroecology
15.12.20Banana is a major commodity in Rwanda, used as both a cash and (staple) food…
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Agriculture for Peace: A call to action to avert a global food crisis
14.12.20-
Food security
50 years ago, the late Norman Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for averting…
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Best of 2020: Editors’ picks
14.12.20COVID-19 didn’t slow us down! In 2020, our editors continued to cover exciting news and…
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New book on value chain development seeks to translate ideas into practice – for impact at scale
12.12.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Interview with the editors of the new book “Value Chain Development and The Poor: Promise, delive…
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Press Release: “Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Kathmandu (Nepal) December 11, 2020 The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the rel…
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Policy seminar: Information and collaboration both key to preventing food crises
11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON From the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent conflict to desert locust outbreaks, popu…
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Sorghum and millet grow money for the Mariko family
11.12.20-
Food security
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Health
Use of improved seed triples yields, credit through warrantage system leads to big gains. Access…
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What Africa can learn from Asia about agricultural mechanization
10.12.20The new book includes thirteen case studies from Asia and Africa documenting the differences in…
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The Market Services That Ethiopian Livestock Farmers are Willing to Pay for
10.12.20A recently published ICARDA study investigating rural farmers' willingness to pay for carefully iden…
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Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
10.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The concept of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus has gained widespread traction in the last decade…
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“Happy Seeder” saves farmers money over burning straw, new study in India shows
10.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Compared to conventional tillage practices, sowing wheat directly into just-harvested rice fields wi…
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