The critical role of smallholder farmers of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in the global food chain
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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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Oil palm for the people
15.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent…
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GLF summit: Leveraging investment portfolios to manage sustainable landscapes
15.05.18-
Environmental health
More than 900,000 people living off the electrical grid now have improved access to renewable…
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Canadian perspectives on the 2018 GFPR: Building women’s empowerment and food security
15.05.18-
Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “To achieve gender equality, we need to address social and economic power…
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Open trade is crucial for food security and development (Devex)
15.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Devex published an opinion piece by IFPRI's researchers Will Martin and David Laborde, where th…
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How drone-assisted breeding can help stop rice hoja blanca disease
15.05.18CIAT and FLAR are collaborating to breed more rice varieties that are highly resistant to…
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From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
15.05.18-
Environmental health
Despite growing pressures of development and urbanization, community members from Sendangsari villag…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
14.05.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in…
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Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
14.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
13.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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Transfer programs, child nutrition, and intimate partner violence
11.05.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for…
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2018 Global Report on Food Crises shows rising food insecurity, need to build resilience
11.05.18-
Food security
BY SARA GUSTAFSON In 2017, an estimated 124 million people faced crisis-level food insecurity or…
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Strategic investments and Scientific Award announcements mark ICRISAT’s 84th Board Meeting
11.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The announcement of new strategic investments for research, marked the 84th meeting of ICRISAT’s G…
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IRRI shares Rice Crop Manager experience during the 10th ICT4D Conference
11.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through partnership with national research partners, IRRI applies sustainable global solutions to lo…
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Planning workshop prepares researchers to scale out agricultural innovations
10.05.18-
Food security
Representatives of three teams whose proposals were successfully awarded funds from the CGIAR Resear…
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Firm to pitch $150 million Treenewable Climate Fund in GLF Dragons’ Den
10.05.18-
Environmental health
An investment company managing almost $5 billion in land assets will make a $150 million…
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Disentangling natural resource management impacts – one evaluation at a time
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Last week was a tough one for our small group of IFPRI researchers in Accra.…
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Workshop on data management in agriculture
10.05.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
PhenoHarmonIS workshop 2018 on harmonization of germplasm, phenotypic and agronomic data for plants…
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