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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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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)03.03.20-
Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)03.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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Studying the potato’s water needs for more efficient irrigation
International Potato Center (CIP)02.03.20Water is essential for food production, with farming accounting for about 70 percent of global…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)02.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)02.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine-harvestable Chickpea
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)02.03.20Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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(Enteric methane) greenhouse gas emissions in cows are cut 25% with feed supplement (3-NOP)
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)01.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Africa's litigated democracy
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Feb. 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country’s…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.02.20-
Food security
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Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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MEDIA ADVISORY | ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry: What has been achieved?
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)27.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
JAKARTA (Feb. 26, 2020) – Throughout Southeast Asia, new laws introduced to support social forestr…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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