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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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National Planning Commission and IRRI-Nepal hold round table meeting to discuss five-year work plan on the country’s rice agri-food system
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)16.08.18-
Food security
For more than 50 years, IRRI has been working with Nepal in providing improved germplasm…
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How far has Indonesia come on peatland conservation and restoration?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)15.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The joint need to protect remaining peatlands while restoring degraded lands resounded t…
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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)15.08.18-
Food security
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Health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO AND SARA GUSTAFSON The countries that make up the G20 account for around…
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Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)15.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The state of the earth’s biodiversity – the world’s variety of living organisms – is…
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IRRI celebrates National Nutrition Month in the Philippines
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)15.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Nutrition awareness ramps up in the Philippines during the annual celebration of National Nutrition …
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)15.08.18-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This post originally appeared in The Conversation in light of the 21st World Congress on Soil…
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Women at work
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nepal - Nestled in Nepal’s southern subtropical Terai lowlands, Chitwan National Park looks worlds…
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN After many years of rapid growth, serious trade tensions have emerged between…
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Some strategic approaches to land restoration
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)14.08.18-
Environmental health
An estimated 340 million hectares of woody vegetation are degraded across Africa’s fragile dry are…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game (China Daily)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
China Daily published an op-ed authored by IFPRI's Director General Shenggen Fan on impact of tr…
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Pathways from Agricultural Research to Poverty Reduction: A Bigger Set of ‘Food Systems’ Thinking is Required
CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC)14.08.18-
Food security
In this interview, Tom Tomich, ex-ISPC member and Professor and Director, Agricultural Sustainabilit…
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Understanding gender norms and innovation processes to foster gender-equitable opportunities in forest landscapes
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Gender researchers present findings from Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan that shed light on how gender norm…
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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern Chi…
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The British High Commissioner to Kenya visits ILRI’s Nairobi livestock labs and campus
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
H.E Nic Hailey, British High Commissioner to Kenya (fourth left), led a delegation from the…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Bridging worlds through environmental activism
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)13.08.18-
Environmental health
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, who will speak at the upcoming Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi, has…
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Fish Caught in America, Processed in China Get Trapped by Trade Dispute (Wall Street Journal)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)13.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wall Street Journal published a news feature on the US administration’s proposed tariffs on impo…
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Agriculture key to poverty reduction (Financial Express)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)13.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s Financial Express published an opinion piece co-authored by IFPRI’s Senior Research Fe…
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