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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
CGIAR24.06.24-
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
CGIAR30.11.22-
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
CGIAR18.11.22-
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
CGIAR15.11.22We 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
CGIAR10.11.22-
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
CGIAR09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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Measuring the true cost of food
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)11.11.20-
Food security
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
HarvestPlus09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)09.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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New Ethiopia Study: Reach of the CGIAR System Much Larger Than That of Individual Innovations
CGIAR09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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IITA paper on genome editing among most read Open Access journal
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)07.11.20A paper by an IITA Principal Scientist, Leena Tripathi, on ‘CRISPR/Cas9 editing of endogenous b…
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Stakeholders meet virtually to discuss shared plans for One Health Challenge
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)07.11.20The CGIAR Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture recently organized an online stakeholder co…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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ICRISAT: innovation broker working with private sector An interview with Ram Dhulipala
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.11.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s iHub platform was recently highlighted in the Food & Business Knowledge Platform for…
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Environment Minister launches women-owned food processing unit in Telangana
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mr Allola Indrakaran Reddy, Minister for Endowment, Law, Forest and Environment, Telangana, recently…
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A catastrophe avoided
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)05.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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Making digitalization work for African agriculture: The role of the enabling environment
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)05.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BENJAMIN K. ADDOM AND HEIKE BAUMÜLLER Fourth in a series of blog posts on…
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How can I optimize my breeding scheme?
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)04.11.20-
Food security
New series of manuals developed by EiB is a practical guide to designing crossing, evaluation…
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Paper: Conceptualizing COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)04.11.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts food security in a number of ways, from disrupting food systems…
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New research in Vietnam shows holistic approach to school-based interventions required to promote healthy eating among children
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)04.11.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research study by scientists from Vietnam's National Institute of Nutrition and the CGIAR…
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