Interim DG and other IITA scientists on the Research.com world’s best plant science and agronomy list
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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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8-11 September 2019: DryArc initiative co-design workshop
04.09.19Rabat, Morocco, 8-11 September 2019 – Eight CGIAR* centers are participating in a co-design works…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
03.09.19-
Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19Ensuring the access of small-scale farmers to products and potential benefits from genetic engineeri…
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Will genetic engineering contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19-
Food security
Genetic engineering (GE)—the introduction or change of DNA, RNA or proteins by human manipulation …
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CGIAR at AGRF 2019
03.09.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), considered to be the world’s most important forum for…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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Partnering for success: Sector unites to grow aquaculture in Timor-Leste
29.08.19At Timor-Leste’s 2nd National Aquaculture Forum in Dili, recently, stakeholders discussed ways to …
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African leaders rely on science and technology to improve food security
28.08.19Rural areas in Africa are facing unprecedented challenges. From high levels of rural-urban migration…
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Can boosting yields slow the global palm oil expansion and ease its environmental impacts?
26.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Over the past two decades, global palm oil production has increased rapidly to meet rising…
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World Water Week 2019
26.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Happy World Water Week! Join us this week as we discuss innovative water solutions for…
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Reuters.com: Water pollution an ‘invisible threat’ to global goals, economists warn
23.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
World Bank report warns of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies,…
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Independent.co.uk: World health chiefs call for more studies on microplastics in drinking water
22.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Research gap must be filled but meanwhile governments and businesses must urgently reduce plastic pr…
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Breaking Ground: Anani Bruce guards Africa’s maize harvest from insect pests
21.08.19Anani Bruce, maize entomologist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) sin…
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To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
21.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is…
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Raising a unified voice: Supporting African small-scale fishers and fish workers to be heard
21.08.19Bertha Kporvi (interviewee) at Sekondi market selling smoked fish in Sekondi, Ghana. Forty represent…
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‘I can’t catch enough fish’: Balancing water needs for farmers and fishers in Myanmar
21.08.19Water control infrastructure in Myanmar. These sluices are used to stop saltwater intruding up the…
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