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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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Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
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Back from the brink of extinction
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
Long-term efforts to restore and conserve a collection of Israeli and Palestinian wheat landraces (I…
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Understanding what impacts last after the project ends
12.09.19-
Nutrition
Little is known about what happens after a development project ends. Scientists with HarvestPlus ret…
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How small businesses are driving growth across African agriculture
12.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new report from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that millions of sm…
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ANH Academy launches technical brief on economic evaluations of multi-sectoral actions for nutrition and health
12.09.19-
Nutrition
The technical working group of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy has published a…
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Averting the looming climate crisis for the global poor
10.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Second in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
10.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
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China offers e-commerce lessons for rural Africa
09.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shuyang, a once poverty-stricken county in China’s northern Jiangsu Province, has a history of hor…
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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Breeding future-ready crops: Incorporating key traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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Nane Nane Expo: Tanzanian agricultural show inspires research teams to excel
06.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research programs from the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) showcased their best tech…
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Scaling up channels for innovative digital service to reach more farmers in Odisha
06.09.19Rice Crop Manager service available at Common Service Centres (CSC) The International Rice Re…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Researchers look deep under the banana’s skin
05.09.19-
Food security
The very thing that makes bananas so easy to eat – they don’t have seeds…
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As the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit Approaches, here’s how IFPRI is addressing climate change
05.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
First in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Health
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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