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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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An innovative method for boosting nutrition (Live Mint)
22.10.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Live Mint published an op-ed by Associate Research Fellow Samuel Scott who discussed the innova…
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CGIAR and their mission for global agriculture (Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network)
22.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The world’s attention was focused on Des Moines for the World Food Prize event. Discussions…
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Press Release: CGIAR Celebrates World Food Prize’s Focus on Reducing Child Stunting through Nutrition
16.10.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
16 October 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Efforts must continue to be ramped up to tackle…
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Domestic migration makes people sadder and less calm, finds study (The print)
16.10.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India's The Print published an article amplifying the recent IFPRI research by Senior Research Fel…
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How will 9 billion or 10 billion people eat without destroying the environment? (The Washington Post)
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
The Washington Post published an article framing food consumption through the lens of global produ…
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How the science of biofortification grew from an idea to a food revolution
16.10.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Want to reach millions? It all starts with an idea A major global success in…
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One thousand and ninety seven reasons to celebrate World Food Day
16.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
In her World Food Day blog, Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International draws attentio…
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International Day of Rural Women 2018
15.10.18-
Gender equality
To celebrate the International Day of Rural Women on October 15th, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform…
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Ambassador Kenneth Quinn on the challenge of feeding 9 billion people
15.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Booming population growth in the face of climate change is putting undue pressures on the…
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Evidence, interventions and impact: Building informal market food safety capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
09.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In September 2018, a Brussels Development Briefing featured discussions on "Food safety: A critical…
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Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
09.10.18-
Food security
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw …
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Top Washington institute to assist in Sri Lanka to formulate a food policy (Colombo Gazette)
01.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Colombo Gazette reported on a recent meeting between Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena…
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Why it is more profitable to invest money in agricultural R&D, roads and irrigation than on subsidies
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A book titled Supporting Indian Farms: the Smart Way that brings out the advantages of…
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FAO on the common but flawed comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and transport
19.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Graphic by FAO. Livestock experts Anne Mottet and Henning Steinfeld, of the Food and Agriculture…
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Sharing China’s agricultural experience to help solve Africa’s development challenges
18.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural cooperation was one of the main topics at the recent 2018 Beijing Summit of the…
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Regenerating crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
18.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…
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Africa's agriculture trade monitor report (CNBC)
11.09.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CNBC Africa conducted a live interview with Research Fellow Dr. Getaw Tadesse Gebreyohanes about…
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Fixing Asia's Food System (The Economist)
10.09.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Cargill and The Economist outlined the necessary transformations to Asia's food system in order to…
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