Enhancing better sustainable crop intensification through institutions in Uganda
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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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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Women in wheat science
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)01.07.19Demand for wheat is predicted to increase 70% by the year 2050. As demand for…
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Experimental stations in Mexico improve global agriculture
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)01.07.19The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) operates five agricultural experiment …
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A day to remember: Scientists and processors exchange on the changes in the cassava value chain in Colombia over the past 20 years
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)01.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for…
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IITA Youth Agripreneurs program wins international award for youth empowerment innovations
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)01.07.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In recognition of its commitment to improving both agribusiness opportunities and creditworthiness o…
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When small is beautiful – but not spectacular
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)01.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Taking stock of a widespread water intervention in Africa. New study highlights the need for…
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Reconciling food security, resource depletion and environmental quality trade-offs in India
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)28.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), delved into linkages…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.06.19In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global…
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Conference: Challenges of eliminating child labor in agriculture and food chains
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.06.19-
Gender equality
Around the world, more than 70% of child labor is found in the agriculture sector—an…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Fifty technologies in five years – Feed the Future, MISST project shares outcomes in Malawi
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Food security
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Health
Over 245,000 households reached 14,500 MT of seed produced, over 50 technologies developed – these…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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Policy Seminar: Faster than you think – renewable energy and developing countries
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.06.19-
Environmental health
Ten years ago, predictions for the adoption of renewable energy around the world made it…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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Don't miss the BIMSTEC bus: Regional integration with South Asia-Southeast Asia bloc brings advantages for India
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the VIPs at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in for a second term May…
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Agrobiodiversity essential to sustainable food systems for the future
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)25.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A new book from MIT Press proposes and develops an expanded concept of agrobiodiversity, which,…
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CIP Trustee elected head of UN agriculture agency
International Potato Center (CIP)24.06.19The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced on 23 June 2019…
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