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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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#OneHealthDay is this Sunday: Join ILRI in collaborative work for healthier people, animals and lands
03.11.19-
Food security
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Health
A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals (photo credit:ILRI/Stevie Mann) Written by Ekta…
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Celebrating One Health Day 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s One Health research
03.11.19-
Health
One Health Day is a global campaign marked annually on 3 November to bring attention…
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The road to women’s economic empowerment: Do women (and men) prefer on or off the farm?
01.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development…
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Ethiopian practices bring returns on massive investments in soil and water management
01.11.19With significant advances on restoring degraded landscapes, and new policies on soil strategies an…
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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Unity in the face of the global climate crisis: How sharing expert knowledge translates to on-the-ground solutions
01.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Fight against fall armyworm in Asia benefits from experience in other regions
31.10.19-
Food security
When the destructive fall armyworm arrived in Asia in the summer of 2018, scientists were…
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Healthy diets at risk by expansion of industrial agriculture
31.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Poor in Africa south of the Sahara face rising disproportionate risks from extreme weather
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Weather shocks driven by climate change pose huge and still uncertain risks to the world’s…
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Making an Impact: 2018 Annual Report
29.10.19We excited to share our 2018 Annual Report entitled ‘Making an Impact’. We invite you…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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IMMANA announces research grant call for applications
29.10.19-
Nutrition
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) program has announ…
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How do we scale solar irrigation? Here’s what the experts think
28.10.19Solar powered irrigation systems are providing cheap, reliable water for smallholder farmers, all w…
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Outsmarting the enemy through proactive rice science
28.10.19-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is collaborating with partners in the Healthy Crops…
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