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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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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Food security
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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ILRI scientist named among climate science's top 100
03.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
"On some days I think I can see hopeful signs. On others, I think no,…
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Can we create a climate-resistant coffee in time?
29.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Matthew Reynolds, Distinguished Scientist and Head of Wheat Physiology at CIMMYT, talked to The Guar…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
22.04.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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New zinc-fortified wheat set for global expansion to combat malnutrition
19.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
Scientists at CIMMYT expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that…
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New genotyping services launched across CGIAR and partners
14.04.21-
Big data
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding has launched new low-cost, high throughput genotyping services, positio…
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Seeding excellence through breeding excellence
05.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
When parts of Asia looked to be on the brink of famine in the 1960s,…
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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR breeding brings major returns on investment, finds study
26.01.21-
Food security
Governments and foundations investing in CGIAR are seeing extraordinary value for money, according t…
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Food security
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Forest and landscape restoration: Beyond fixes that fail
19.01.21-
Biodiversity
One of the challenges in managing tree resources is the long delay between planting efforts…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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Nixtamalization: An ingenious solution for healthier maize-based diets
21.12.20-
Nutrition
Some 500 years ago — in the wake of the cataclysmic encounter between European powers…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Food security
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Health
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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