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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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Repositioning forests in rural economic development
11.07.18Indonesia - Every time we pick out a new end table or order a burger,…
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Can direct benefits from PPP schemes trickle down beyond private business to the rest of society?
11.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How do you measure public-private partnership schemes’ impacts to the society and environment? To …
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2018 GFPR & CASDR Beijing Launch: China provides valuable lessons in food security and agricultural development
11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY LIN GAO Countries must work with and learn from each other to advance progress…
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A brief explainer of the blue economy
10.07.18Indonesia - Carbon-rich coastal ecosystems are rocketing to the forefront of global actions on clima…
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Forests and water are inseparable
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The world is facing a growing water crisis: already, 40% of the world’s population are…
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Securing East Africa’s cassava
10.07.18-
Biodiversity
IITA is eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so it can safely be transported from East…
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Bhoochetana: An exceptional story of innovation scale-up bringing prosperity to over 4 million farmers
10.07.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In May 2009, farmers in the state of Karnataka were facing declining crop yields and…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
10.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Forests: The greenest pastures?
09.07.18-
Food security
Ethiopia - How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on…
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Why Agriculture R&D is the Smartest Investment for US and African Governments (CNN.com)
09.07.18-
Food security
Tewodaj Mogues argues that the uncertain renewal of the Global Food Security Act provides an opport…
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Reassessing the aid-policy-growth relationship: A new approach
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XIN GENG AND MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ Can foreign aid be effective only if countries have…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems
09.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …
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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
06.07.18-
Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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Ethiopia’s small-holder farmers see rise in crop yields (African News Agency)
06.07.18-
Food security
The African News Agency summarized IFPRI findings that determined the use of certified seeds, imp…
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Why farmers adopt certain technologies but leave out others (Hindustan Times)
06.07.18-
Food security
The Hindustan Times published an article authored by IFPRI research fellow Avinash Kishore on th…
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Seeding agricultural growth: Optimal support goes beyond MSP (Financial Express)
06.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Financial Express, an Indian newspaper, published an opinion piece co-authored by IFPRI Director o…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
06.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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