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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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Small businesses embrace “green” practices without financial incentives, survey shows
06.04.18Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a significant self-initiated role in sustainable and enviro…
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What can we learn from rising rice production in Senegal?
06.04.18-
Food security
BY KATRIN GLATZEL Ndèye lives in a small town in northern Senegal, close to the…
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Scaling sustainable rice farming practices to achieve food security in Asia
06.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
JAKARTA, Indonesia— Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food a…
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Cholera in Zambia: Treating the Causes, not the Symptoms (News Diggers)
05.04.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Zambia’s News Diggers published an article on the recurring cholera outbreaks in the country.The…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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Rural vitalization: What lessons can China learn from international experiences?
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG Despite China’s impressive progress in reducing poverty, hunger, and nutrition ov…
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AfricaRice launches free mobile app for rice weed control in Africa
05.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has launched a powerful new decision-support tool, called ‘Ric…
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48 African countries meet in Nairobi to explore climate change technologies
05.04.18Nairobi, Kenya, 5 April 2018…
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The Philippines needs a national agroforestry policy to meet the Sustainable Development Goals
05.04.18Representatives of Philippine government forestry and agriculture agencies, the private secto…
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To fix landscapes, first get the right tools
05.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
By pledging to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land, countries take a…
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Determining the True Costs of Our Food Through Systems Thinking (Food Tank)
04.04.18-
Food security
Foodtank published a feature on IFPRI's senior research fellow, Wei Zhang, and her work on the…
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The credibility gap: Low trust in government stands in the way of fuel subsidy reform
04.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By all accounts, fossil fuel subsidies are disastrous public policy. They encourage us to consume…
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IFPRI Headquarters Move Complete
04.04.18Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that IFPRI-Washington staff will now be housed under…
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Gender relations and gaps in the cocoa value-chain in Peru
04.04.18Researchers have found that greater inclusion of women is needed to optimally intensify cocoa value-…
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Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees?
04.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Agroforestry can make a key contribution to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which aims to…
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Increasing sustainability by leaps and bonds
03.04.18-
Environmental health
A recent private sector initiative to help fund sustainable natural rubber plantations in heavily de…
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