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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 the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
17.02.20USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Super beans for a climate-stressed world
16.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, beans are a delicious, nutritious and…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
14.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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How China can address threats to food and nutrition security from the coronavirus outbreak
12.02.20-
Food security
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Health
The current novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) outbreak originated from a seafood and wild foo…
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Cowpea receives more research support
10.02.20Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), also known as black eyed pea or niebé, is a legume crop grown…
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Indo-Australia genomics project for chickpea drought tolerance gains momentum
10.02.20India and Australia have joined hands in a multi-institutional project to enhance drought tolerance …
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The more crops farmers grow, the more food, nutrition and income secure they are – study
06.02.20-
Food security
It is common for smallholder farmers in Africa to grow multiple crops on their farms.…
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Why gender matters for soil health as part of sustainable food systems
05.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
While healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change mit…
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African farmers helping to grow quality seed for ‘neglected’ crops
05.02.20BY CHRISTOPHER BENDANA Though Uganda has some of the lowest agricultural productivity in the world,…
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Facilitating training programs for improving crop-livestock systems in Niger
03.02.20Training programs on silage making, animal health and laboratory management were held in Niger for…
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The world needs higher-quality diets. But is better nutrition affordable for all?
31.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Messages around healthy eating are nothing new—but nowadays we are increasingly told to eat well …
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How a deadly outbreak unveiled the key to safer food
30.01.20-
Health
A recent article by Nancy Averett in Scientific African Magazine discusses how incidents of food…
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How the right planting season can boost cassava yields
27.01.20-
Food security
Every farmer wants high yields from their crop to get more income. But, do farmers…
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Interdisciplinary research key to making India’s Green Revolution sustainable
27.01.20Around a hundred scientists from varied disciplines, who gathered to discuss an India-UK joint resea…
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Sorghum goes pop: Success stories from a Nigerian initiative
27.01.20Have you heard of ‘pop’ sorghum or ‘diet’ sorghum flour? If you haven’t, you are…
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A4NH compiles glossary on food systems
26.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
What is a food system? How does a food system differ from a value chain?…
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'Supermarketization,' food environments, and the urban poor
23.01.20-
Food security
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Health
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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