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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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An Alliance for Trees: Why forest biodiversity is "too precious to lose"
20.03.20From forest fires to COVID-19, this year has already presented grave challenges to human and planet…
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Nutrition, gender and breeding modernization: Focal points of West and Central Africa research agenda
20.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The spotlight was on biofortification, gender equity and breeding program modernization at the recen…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
20.03.20We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these…
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Training and low-cost tech cut aflatoxin by 53 per cent
19.03.20-
Health
Aflatoxin exposure threatens food security throughout the developing world. Training and low-cost te…
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WHEAT carries on in the “new normal” of COVID-19
18.03.20-
Health
The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat and its lead center, the International Maize and Wheat…
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Turning off the tap, while tapping into inclusive institutions
18.03.20In Myanmar, limited groundwater resources must be used wisely to safeguard the livelihoods of thousa…
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8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change
18.03.20-
Health
As entire countries go on lockdown, factories close and international air travel grinds to a hal…
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“Every Color in My Pencil Box”
17.03.20Growing up in Assam, India, CIP researcher Sampriti Baruah remembers having potatoes with nearly eve…
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COVID-19’s impact on China’s small and medium-sized businesses
17.03.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Nov. 2019 in Hubei Province, China, business activity in the…
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
16.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The future of food production is an urgent issue. Imagine that our ecosystems deteriorate to…
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Backing up crop biodiversity collections for agriculture’s future
16.03.20-
Biodiversity
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in dep…
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IITA BIP team sets new production per hectare record for yam farmers in Nigeria
16.03.20The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new record of 23 t/ha for yam productio…
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Brokering research crucial for climate-proofing drylands
13.03.20-
Food security
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Health
Of the 12 interventions identified for agriculture by the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) in…
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ICRISAT and local seed companies to build a seed industry for supply of high performing hybrids to small holder farmers
13.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Demand for sorghum and pearl millet as major food, feed and fodder crop continues…
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What’s next for CGIAR
13.03.20-
Food security
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Health
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Tackling the root causes of gender inequality through research (Modern Ghana)
13.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
By Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini R…
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Study finds high potential for sustainable intensification of agriculture in Asia, but important questions remain
12.03.20A recent study published by International Potato Center scientists Marcel Gatto and Guy Hareau sugge…
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