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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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A ‘caloric calculus’ with big consequences—healthy foods are expensive in poor countries, unhealthy foods cheap in rich countries—New IFPRI paper
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)27.07.19-
Nutrition
Eggs and other nutrient-dense foods are expensive in poor countries, leading to child stunting, whil…
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The new challenges of wheat improvement
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In the Green Revolution era, the focus for wheat breeders was on boosting yields to…
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Scientist Bekele Abeyo details research in Africa with BBC
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.07.19-
Food security
Most African countries have good potential for boosting wheat production if they are supported with…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)24.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainabl…
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Policy seminar: Rohingyas displaced to Bangladesh face an uncertain future
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)23.07.19-
Gender equality
In 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into southeastern…
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As water systems fail across South Africa, rural communities look to self-supply
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)23.07.19-
Environmental health
An Op-ed originally published on the Daily Maverick: About half of municipal wastewater and water…
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Precision spreader for fertilizer set to change the agriculture scene in Nepal
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)19.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Smallholder farmers in Nepal tend to apply fertilizer by hand, spreading it as they walk…
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Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)17.07.19Amid global efforts to intensify the nutritional value and scale of wheat production, scientists fro…
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DailyMaverick.co.za: As water systems fail across the country, rural communities look to self-supply
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)17.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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Governing Myanmar’s inland fisheries: looking for the right balance
WorldFish17.07.19With an extraordinary diversity of ecosystems and fish species, Myanmar ranks among the top-ten fish…
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PIM Achievements in 2018: Highlights
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)15.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Sound policies and well-functioning institutions and markets are essential to building sustainable a…
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
AfricaRice15.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Sam Thevasagayam of the Gates Foundation receives the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ 2019 International Award
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)12.07.19-
Food security
Sam Thevasagayam, deputy director for global development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation …
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GatesNotes.com: You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)11.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
It’s too bad that more people don’t know about CGIAR. Their work to feed our…
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System effects modelling helps identify challenges, impacts and strategies for improving food safety
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)10.07.19-
Health
In May 2019, food safety researchers from Cambodia and Vietnam participated in a training on…
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Bill Gates Highlights Impact of CGIAR: Feeding our Future
CGIAR10.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future What’s…
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Bill Gates highlights impact of CIMMYT’s drought-tolerant maize
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In a new blog post and video, Bill Gates discusses the essential role the CGIAR…
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