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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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Gaining a better understanding of local fertilizer prices for African smallholder farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in Africa south of the Sahara are generally low, in large part because…
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IFPRI short video contest: Planting my path in Nepalese agriculture
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.01.20-
Food security
Second in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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Economic growth and decent work from natural resources: how Sustainable Development Goal 8 will affect forests and forest-dependent livelihoods
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)16.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scientists argue that forests will only remain standing if the world changes its paradigm of…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)16.01.20If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Study calls for better understanding of fertilizer prices faced by African smallholder farmers
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)15.01.20-
Food security
Crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. This is in large part because of…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
irst in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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National and sub-national workshops, Mbale, Uganda
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)14.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A venue in Mbale, Eastern Uganda was selected to host the InPaC-S national workshop. It…
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Tokyo strives to build resilience with city trees and healthy farmlands around it
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)14.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By some accounts, Tokyo is the world's largest city, with a population of 37 million. So,…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.01.20-
Food security
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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First MSc students complete A4NH-supported work on food systems for healthier diets in Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.01.20-
Food security
To build capacity and engagement among young researchers in Ethiopia, the Food Systems for Healthier…
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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Choosing between supermarkets and wet markets
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.01.20-
Food security
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
CGIAR13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)13.01.20CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Photo story: A healthy change
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)12.01.20-
Health
A new photo story from CGIAR details how A4NH food systems research puts safety first…
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Multi-stakeholder workshops for food systems profiles at the A4NH benchmark sites along Vietnam’s rural-urban transect
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)10.01.20-
Food security
Between August and November 2019, three workshops were held in Vietnam to share preliminary results…
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