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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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New project aims to improve food and nutrition security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
03.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the launch meeting via videoconference Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT A recently lau…
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CGIAR Performance Report 2019 now available online
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
An online report detailing research-to-impact results in 2019 across the CGIAR System is now availab…
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Drought-prone landscape turns green
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kalahandi district in Odisha, India, has suffered from repeated droughts and famines for several dec…
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Enabling Niger farmers to turn seed producers
31.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
An intensive training workshop for aspiring seed producers in Niger equipped them with necessary kno…
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New project aims to improve food and nutritional security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recently launched project, with a focus on iron- and zinc-fortified hybrids and open-pollinated va…
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Adding value to smallholder farming in Malawi
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in Malawi, with support from a seed development project and government initiativ…
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Historic wheat research station poised to host cutting-edge research
30.07.20It was the site where International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) scientist Norman Bor…
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Work to develop high yielding Striga tolerant maize seed is bearing fruit
30.07.20-
Food security
Striga, an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers, looks striking and harmless. But, be…
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It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms
30.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers call on the Government to promulgate the draft national agroforestry strategy to hasten …
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests study in the spotlight at COFI virtual dialogues
30.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 300 experts from over 50 countries are contributing to the Illuminating Hidden Harvests…
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“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
29.07.20More than 100 scientists, crop breeders, researchers, and representatives from funding and national …
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IITA scientists spearhead efforts to save East Africa’s potatoes from a new pest threat
29.07.20Scientists at CGIAR-IITA, working with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Semantics and words matter for analyzing gender and social inclusivity in development projects
27.07.20-
Environmental health
The Agrobiodiversity Index and the Enhancing Sustainability Across Agricultural Systems of the Water…
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MEDIA RELEASE | Understanding the game: new network investigates how games can create sustainable land management
27.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya, 27 July 2020 — The way water, forests and people interact is complex but…
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West Africa: Smarter investments in small reservoirs needed
27.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Small reservoirs allow West African farmers to irrigate their fields and water their livestock. They…
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CIP’s Andean Initiative takes flight
24.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A fascinating 90-minute international panel discussion this morning kicked off the International Pot…
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Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali
24.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A study by scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Mopti, Segou and Sikasso, located in cent…
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