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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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Australia’s responsibility to ocean health doesn’t end with the Great Barrier Reef
07.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Earlier this year, a record-breaking investment to protect the Great Barrier Reef was announced, an…
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Legumes for poverty alleviation, nutrition security and sustainable development
05.06.18-
Big data
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Nutrition
Recommendations to improve farmers’ incomes through sustainable production and marketing of legume…
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Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘the single biggest way’ to harm poor livestock herders
05.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Below are excerpts of a response to a new livestock report made by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, a…
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Meat, milk, eggs can make a big difference in the first 1,000 days of life in low-income countries—New report
04.06.18-
Nutrition
Cover of a new report,The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000…
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Why milk, meat and eggs can make a big difference to the world’s most nutritionally vulnerable people
04.06.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Illustrations by (left to right): Thomas Slater, Fideli Sundqvist and Brian Cairns. Opinion piece b…
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Can our environment survive our food needs? We asked 11 eminent water scientists
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
As the world marks World Environment Day this week, we ponder the links between our…
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New studies provide the first accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from East African livestock
03.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
ILRI scientist John Goopy describes ILRI’s Mazingira Centre research on livestock and greenhouse g…
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Global meeting brings together world’s foremost potato experts
31.05.18-
Food security
More than 800 potato scientists, industry representatives, government officials and other interested…
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Does growth in pulses output mean India has reached self-sufficiency? (The Indian Express)
31.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Indian Express reported on IFPRI’s research on pulses in India assessing if India has reache…
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Strengthen markets to aid farmers (Mint)
31.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s Mint published an op-ed by Avinash Kishore assessing the Indian government’s agraria…
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Opportunities and Challenges for CGIAR in a Changing World
31.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently convened its 17th meeting at the F…
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Adaptable, productive Unica: a potato for farmers around the world
25.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alejandro Verastegui’s family has been farming potatoes commercially in Jauja Province, in Peru’…
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Why lower socio-economic inequality holds key to reducing malnutrition (The Indian Express)
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Indian Express reported on IFPRI’s latest research on drivers behind child stunting in India…
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‘Is my food safe?’ – the state of current research on food safety
25.05.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Image: Pork on sale in a local wet market in Hanoi, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew…
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Rebooting food: Finding New Ways to Feed the Future (Reuters)
24.05.18-
Food security
Reuters published a feature on innovative ways to produce food by overcoming threats posed by clim…
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Rebooting food: Finding new ways to feed the future
24.05.18-
Big data
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Food security
Many farmers live in countries that lack access to reliable weather information, which can make…
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From 'Look East' and 'Act East', India must 'think big' and 'act big' (The Week)
23.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s The Week published an opinion piece co-authored by Manmeet Ajmani and Devesh Roy on …
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Africa's green revolution stumbles at Congo project to solve food shortages (Reuters)
22.05.18-
Food security
Reuters published a feature on a Congolese agro-industrial project that promised to enhance food p…
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