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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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A first – and hard – look at restoring Mexico’s terrestrial ecosystems
11.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Mexico is home to vast biological and cultural diversity, alongside a robust legal framework and…
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Chasing receding water tables: How Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole (The Financial Express)
11.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Financial Express published an op-ed authored by IFPRI research fellow Avinash Kishore on o…
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Realizing bamboo and rattan’s full potential: An interview with INBAR Director General Hans Friederich
11.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Ahead of the Global Bamboo and Rattan Conference (BARC) on June 25-27, 2018, the International…
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Sowing the seeds of innovation
10.06.18-
Food security
Innovation lies at the heart of the new strategic plan of the International Rice Research…
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If Mary has a little lamb, who should be in the know?
08.06.18-
Big data
The GDPR and data science for agricultural development are at odds when it comes to…
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G7 can tackle five priorities with one investment: agricultural research
08.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This week the representatives of the world’s most advanced economies grapple with complex challeng…
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GEF-Funded Integrated Approach Programme on Food Security Gains Momentum
08.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2017, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched the Integrated Approach Programme on Fosteri…
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Why we need a holistic approach to improve our complex food system
08.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Our current food systems are incredibly complex, and are experiencing multiple failures across many …
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FTA names new Independent Steering Committee members
07.06.18The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) has named two new, independent…
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Australia’s responsibility to ocean health doesn’t end with the Great Barrier Reef
07.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Earlier this year, a record-breaking investment to protect the Great Barrier Reef was announced, an…
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Ocean currents are slowing down, and that’s bad news
07.06.18-
Environmental health
Two recent articles in the journal Nature reached the same disconcerting conclusion: One of the…
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Data cleaning, the unsexy but essential aspect of data science
07.06.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields…
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Increasing farmer’s’ income through post-harvest technologies and value chain upgrading
07.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI aims to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia by delivering comprehensive…
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Nine Asian countries learn novel technologies in Rice Technology Transfer Systems in Asia (RTTS) Training Workshop at RDA in South Korea
07.06.18-
Food security
IRRI Education, in collaboration with the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of …
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Decaying Belgian Congo–era maps reveal secrets of valuable African tree
07.06.18-
Biodiversity
In the dusty library of a research station on the Congo River, a decaying map…
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Making landscape finance more inclusive
07.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new initiative aims to share issues and best practice for increasing inclusive, responsible financ…
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Figuring out the water cycle… still
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
There are a few different levels of understanding about the water cycle. There are the…
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WateRice project demonstrated laser guided land leveling technology to Iloilo farmers
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IRRI works with national partners to promote technologies that maximize water-use efficiency and to …
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