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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-
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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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Gender equality in food systems: the ‘new normal’
28.09.20-
Gender equality
CGIAR’s new platform designed to put gender equality at the forefront of global agricultural resea…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
28.09.20Photo: Women farmers during a grafting demonstration in Niger. (B Traore, ICRISAT) A group of…
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Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
28.09.20To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISA…
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Nigeria approves new names for top performing cassava varieties
26.09.20The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday evening approved new names for 10 improved cassava…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
25.09.20-
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A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to…
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Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
25.09.20-
Food security
To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISA…
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Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
25.09.20-
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Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems…
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Food market stability: A necessary step for global social and environmental sustainability
24.09.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY PABLO ELVERDIN, MARTIN PIÑEIRO, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, ESTEFANIA PURICELLI, MARCELO REGUNAGA AND…
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Kenya adopts ‘Rice Sector Development Hub’ approach to achieve rice self sufficiency
23.09.20-
Food security
Rice is one of the priority crops in the Big4 Agenda in Kenya and a…
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Evaluative reviews: a streamlined approach to accountability and learning
23.09.20In the first in a series of blogs on the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) Review…
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Promoting nonfarm businesses in Papua New Guinea can improve rural diets
22.09.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY GRACIE ROSENBACH ANDÂ EMILY SCHMIDT Rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) can provide a variety of ben…
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CIMMYT and IITA collaborate to increase adoption of conservation agriculture in southern Africa
21.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Imp…
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Seed consortium to bring improved sorghum to Indian farmers post-rains
21.09.20Photo: Sorghum in a farmer’s field in India. (Punna S, ICRISAT) To make quality seeds…
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Catch-up growth cannot undo damage from undernutrition
20.09.20-
Nutrition
Linear growth retardation is a widely used marker of undernutrition. While the development community…
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Sustainability of food systems: Five steps beyond the EAT-Lancet report
19.09.20-
Food security
A new paper highlights five areas of research and action that require more attention if…
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IITA and CIMMYT collaborate to enhance adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Southern Africa
19.09.20Lilongwe, Malawi. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International …
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IITA and regional grains body to work towards producing aflatoxin-free grain for health and trade
19.09.20CGIAR-IITA and the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) have signed a memorandum of understanding…
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New insights to help advance cassava breeding worldwide
19.09.20Researchers at IITA, along with partners from the NextGen Cassava Breeding Project, have uncovered…
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