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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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Landmark study generates genomic atlas for global wheat improvement
25.11.20In a landmark discovery for global wheat production, an international team led by the University…
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Press release: Landmark study generates genomic atlas for global wheat improvement
25.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada), November 25, 2020. In a landmark discovery for global wheat produc…
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2020 ReSAKSS Conference: Learning from past policy mistakes and achievements to transform African agrifood systems
25.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TSITSI MAKOMBE Last in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2020…
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USAID Global Waters: Strengthening Drought Monitoring Across the Middle East and North Africa
25.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Despite the troublesome outlook, an innovative initiative launched in mid-2018 is increasing the cap…
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Progress and opportunities for CIMMYT spring wheat breeding
25.11.20Wheat scientists in the Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for Improved Livelihoods (AGG)…
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
25.11.20Photo: A training session for farmers in Niger (ICRISAT) In order to guide farmers in…
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“CIMMYT is at my heart”
24.11.20After a 37-year career, Hans-Joachim Braun is retiring from the International Maize and Wheat Improv…
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Here's how to embed continuous improvement in your work
23.11.20-
Food security
Crop breeding programs are setting an example for how to examine and improve their work – while…
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Why the G20 needs to focus on energizing food systems in Africa
23.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND WILLIAM BRENT Third in a series of posts on briefs by…
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40,000 young people in Nigeria to benefit from Young Africa Works-IITA project training program
23.11.20Lagos, Nigeria, November 23, 2020 – In May this year, the International Institute of Tropical…
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Study reveals potato’s potential for reducing anemia
23.11.20-
Nutrition
The potato is known to be a good source of energy, potassium and vitamins C…
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Policy seminar: The political economy of COVID-19 and impacts on food policies around the world
23.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a major shock to global health and…
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More abundant tree species unlikely to return after droughts
21.11.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers around the world have found an alarming lack of natural replacement of dominant tree…
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Tanzania Agriculture PS acknowledges and lauds IITA research work
21.11.20The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania, has recognized the importance of r…
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The cost of improving nutritional outcomes through food aid programs: Is more and longer better?
20.11.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY JEF L. LEROY, JESSICA HECKERT, DEANNA K. OLNEY, SUSAN RICHTER, ELYSE IRUHIRIYE, MARIE T.…
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
20.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
A training session for farmers in Niger. In order to guide farmers in Niger to…
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An instant seed market
20.11.20-
Food security
How do you create the largest market for stress-tolerant seed away from a major business…
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Biofortified crops have a key role to play in COVID-19 response
19.11.20-
Nutrition
COVID-19 has presented many challenges to agriculture this year, but those challenges are also provi…
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