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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
CGIAR24.06.24-
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
CGIAR30.11.22-
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
CGIAR18.11.22-
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
CGIAR15.11.22We 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
CGIAR10.11.22-
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
CGIAR09.11.22A 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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.01.20Interested 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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)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
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)19.12.19-
Health
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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