Bridging the gap: enhancing kenya's food policy with science-based evidence
Featured news
-
The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
CGIAR24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more -
-
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,…
Read more -
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…
Read more -
-
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…
Read more
Filters
-
Biofortified crops address the world’s ‘hidden hunger’
CGIAR09.10.19-
Biodiversity
-
Food security
-
Health
-
Nutrition
Feeding the world is about more than just satisfying stomachs. Food scientists and nutritionists hav…
Read more -
-
Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
Read more -
-
Empowering Africa’s women farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.10.19-
Gender equality
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
Read more -
-
Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)07.10.19-
Health
From consumers working back through production, a research new paper, Food safety in low and…
Read more -
-
Make food a priority in land reforms
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)04.10.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
While land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru hav…
Read more -
-
Donors commit USD790m to help smallholder farmers cope with climate change; Global Commission on Adaptation calls for doubling of investments in CGIAR
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)26.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
Plate with Cutlery and a Kettle, by Vincent van Gogh. Food systems face unprecedented challenges…
Read more -
-
Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…
Read more -
-
ILRI knowledge management recognized internationally
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)25.09.19Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, received the Knowledge Management Award from A…
Read more -
Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
CGIAR23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Environmental health
-
Food security
With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond…
Read more -
-
Large-scale genomics will improve the yield, climate-resilience, and quality of bread wheat, new study shows
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.09.19Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing…
Read more -
ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)23.09.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
“‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries”https://t.co/NcN5tgiGTT — Susan MacMi…
Read more -
-
More equitable crop improvement
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)19.09.19-
Gender equality
Ensuring plant breeders can take women into account M9 is the code name of a…
Read more -
-
The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)18.09.19-
Environmental health
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of…
Read more -
-
‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)18.09.19-
Food security
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All paintings by Olivia Pendergast, an American artist living and working in Kenya. This opinion…
Read more -
-
Harnessing ICT to improve extension systems
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)17.09.19Extension services in Tunisia are outdated, under-resourced, and often fail to deliver new innovatio…
Read more -
IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
Read more -
Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
CGIAR13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
Read more -
To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
CGIAR10.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
Read more -