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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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Data collection in a diverse and complex food system
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IFPRI’s objectives in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are to strengthen data collection and analysis to…
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Supermarket contracts boost incomes and reduce multidimensional poverty for smallholders in Kenya
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.08.20-
Gender equality
BY DENNIS O. OCHIENG AND EMILY WU As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one…
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The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)25.08.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Written by Alexandra Krendelsberger and Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CGIAR CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security…
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Double harvest for half the effort
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.08.20Photo: Peter Mwangofi tending his pigeonpea crop. Photo: ICRISAT, Malawi Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonp…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the webinar. India has made good progress in blending bioethanol with gasoline…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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Embracing change: CGIAR issues response to MOPAN assessment
CGIAR24.08.20In May of this year, the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) released i…
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What does it take to change the Earth? India’s National Agroforestry Policy and beyond
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)24.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 2014, India became the first country in the world to adopt a national agroforestry policy.…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
WorldFish24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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Project to develop Aflasafe technology that controls deadly aflatoxin in Uganda launched
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)23.08.20Kampala, Uganda – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the National Agr…
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Five-year plan for driving Grain Legume and Dryland Cereals seed delivery systems through commodity value chains
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)21.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For those seeking to create a win-win for farmers, marketers and consumers of grain legumes…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)21.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
ICRISAT’s efforts in feedstocks development appreciated on World Biofuel Day India has made good p…
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Double harvest for half the effort
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)21.08.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonpea farmer from Karonga district in Malawi. He relies on the…
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Tackling drought with pro-vitamin A sweetpotato in Africa
International Potato Center (CIP)20.08.20-
Nutrition
Over the last decade, sweetpotato has gradually become increasing more common and important in the…
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Lessons for gender in seed systems
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.08.20Seed systems are complex and dynamic, involving diverse, interdisciplinary actors. Women play an imp…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
WorldFish20.08.20-
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
The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
WorldFish20.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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Tree roots reduce landslide risk
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)19.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers in Indonesia provide evidence of suitability of tree species in preventing landslides. &…
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