Women in Biofortification Sustainably Improving Nutrition and Economic Empowerment
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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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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
05.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The increase and decrease of soil carbon depend on how it is assessed. Nairobi, Kenya,…
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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MEDIA ADVISORY | ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry: What has been achieved?
27.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
JAKARTA (Feb. 26, 2020) – Throughout Southeast Asia, new laws introduced to support social forestr…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
25.02.20Hyderabad, 14 February 2020: Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with…
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When science and industry synergize to develop better crops
25.02.20Setting priorities for research in hybrid pearl millet, sorghum and pigeonpea in India Over 70…
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
25.02.20A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Vast amounts of energy, nutrients, water could be recovered from world’s wastewater, says new report
24.02.20Vast, valuable amounts of energy, essential agricultural nutrients, and water could be recovered fro…
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What’s next for CGIAR?
20.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Food security
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
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Spraying locust swarm is ineffective – IITA entomologist
17.02.20-
Food security
As Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya battle huge swarms of desert locusts, great efforts are underway…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
17.02.20A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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