Highlighting benefits and challenges of Olokemeji Reforestation Project in Nigeria
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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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CIMMYT global partnership fights mutating wheat rust
24.06.19-
Food security
Stem rust, which occurs mainly in warm and humid conditions, is a serious biotic threat…
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Mozambique farmers enjoy greater yields as a result of IITA’s research
24.06.19IITA’s research in Mozambique has made much impact in rural and national development by ensuring…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
24.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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The role of phages: A fight against antibiotic resistance in poultry farms in Kenya
24.06.19-
Food security
Illustration of a bacteriophage (image credit: Flickr/Kevin Gill) In the early 1920s, William Twort …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
22.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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SERVIR experts on ecosystem management and land-use change attend 2019 GFW Summit
21.06.19The 2019 Global Forest Watch (GFW) Summit, held in Washington DC this week, opened with…
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Are high land rental costs pricing African youth out of agriculture?
21.06.19-
Gender equality
A new study shows that youth can face higher land rental prices than older farmers in Tanzania…
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Why now is the moment to invest in nutrition to transform our food systems
21.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
21.06.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Q & A with Lalisa Duguma Forests News caught up with climate change mitigation and…
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New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria
21.06.19-
Health
A new study published in the June 2019 issue of the journal Lancet Planetary Health…
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Bird’s-eye view
20.06.19-
Food security
A new study from researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) shows…
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
20.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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The WTO Dispute Settlement procedure is on the verge of crisis
19.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From its formation in 1995, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body has served as…
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Countries make progress on carbon reduction pledges, but much work remains to be done
19.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By all accounts, countries’ official pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—the nationally d…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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Voices: stories attesting to sustainable production transformation in the Amazon
17.06.19In its final stage, the Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project developed a platform called …
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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