Value addition key to Africa’s food and nutrition security
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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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How wasps are used to control the destructive cowpea pest—Maruca vitrata
07.03.20-
Health
Maruca vitrata, also known as Maruca pod borer, is one of the most devastating insect…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Celebrating the ‘WILD’ (‘Women In Livestock Development’) at ILRI on International Women’s Day—Video
06.03.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Check out this video short highlighting women working at the International Livestock Research Instit…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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Towards equality for women and men in root and tuber agri-food systems
06.03.20-
Gender equality
UN Women notes that 2020 represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gend…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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Partnering to scale big data from small-scale fisheries
06.03.20Our communications team sat down with Alex Tilley, scientist at WorldFish, and Dave Solomon, CEO…
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
06.03.20"An encounter thirty years ago in rural Costa Rica stays with me to this day.…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Root and tuber crops have a central role to play in building resilience in Asian agri-food systems
05.03.20As developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and its impact on agriculture,…
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Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
05.03.20-
Health
In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
05.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The increase and decrease of soil carbon depend on how it is assessed. Nairobi, Kenya,…
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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
04.03.20-
Food security
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…
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Time to change the system: Researchers reveal experiences in a biased world
04.03.20An excerpt from our upcoming podcast: [audio mp3="https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2020/03/IW…
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