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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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The Future of Food – Food Substitute Pills
21.01.20-
Biodiversity
Seed banks, like the one at CIMMYT’s headquarters in Mexico, are part of planning for…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
20.01.20The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
20.01.20Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
16.01.20If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Food security
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
13.01.20CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
09.01.20-
Food security
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya
09.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have found modest, yet statistically significant, improv…
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Jo Swinnen joins IFPRI as new director general
07.01.20IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist…
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Dynamic modelling to help improve farm output
06.01.20ICRISAT and ICAR scientists developing System Dynamics Modelling for Indian agriculture Can policy m…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Short and mid-early pigeonpea varieties steal the show
30.12.19Pigeonpea Network Group (Asia) Workshop-cum-Field Day 2019 Pigeonpea researchers from across Asia ha…
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Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes
30.12.19Food systems can be effectively transformed by identifying drivers of food choice and factors influe…
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New study develops forecasting tools for better detection and control of dengue in Vietnam
19.12.19-
Health
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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