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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Good Nutrition is Crucial for the Coronavirus Vaccine to Work Effectively
26.11.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Vaccines are harder to deliver and potentially less effective at stimulating an immune response in…
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New Study: CGIAR Innovations Reach Nearly 80 Percent of Ethiopia’s Rural Households
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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How to ensure access to healthy diets for all: a clarion call for One CGIAR
30.10.20-
Nutrition
Guest blog by Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) At …
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Are Food Systems ‘Broken’ – or Just Out of Sync?
16.10.20Our food systems are not broken; they are out of sync with what we need…
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Fast-tracked adoption of second-generation resistant maize varieties key to managing maize lethal necrosis in Africa
19.01.21-
Genomics
Scientists are calling for accelerated adoption of new hybrid maize varieties with resistance to mai…
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Giving Africa’s new crop varieties a data boost digitally
19.01.21To increase adoption of new improved varieties in Africa, a webinar was recently organized under…
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Does improving food market access improve rural household nutritional outcome in developing countries?
19.01.21Diversification of farms is often advocated for bringing diet diversity to rural households and impr…
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Improving the prospects for breeding better bananas
18.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Progressive heterobeltiosis for bunch weight in bred ‘Matooke’ banana hybrids (NARITAs), when gr…
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Gender equity in the food environment: Considerations for low- and middle-income countries
18.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To truly understand the role of gender and inequities in the food system, nutrition and…
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Digital nutrient management tool reduces emissions, improves crop yields and boosts farmers’ profits
15.01.21-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
An international team of scientists, led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CI…
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Developers unite around a common platform to liberate breeding data
14.01.21As public sector breeding has modernized, it has become a more data intensive enterprise. Numerous…
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Update on the CGIAR research response to COVID-19
14.01.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis and massive disruptions to economies and…
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CGIAR researchers share COVID-19 work from across the system
13.01.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
One key function of the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub, established in July 2020, is to gather…
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WEF event: Building gender equitable food systems
13.01.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By SOKHNA SALL SECK Empowering women and girls and the recognition and respect of their…
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Forman Lecture: Ellen Piwoz’s playbook for the future of global nutrition
12.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN When Ellen Piwoz joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007, th…
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Establishing guidelines and engaging stakeholders to promote high-oleic peanut value chain in India
12.01.21Demand for peanut oil in India is increasing and a dependable supply of quality seed…
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Young Malian researchers gear up for grand challenges with crop modeling
12.01.21UE-APSAN Mali project trains next generation of modeling experts Budding agricultural researchers ar…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
12.01.21A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
12.01.21To meet the growing global market demand for protein-rich chickpea, scientists have created new vari…
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Strategizing on a national seed system in Kenya with special focus on climate-resilient crops
12.01.21A national seed systems strategy with special focus on drought tolerant crops such as sorghum…
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Historical socio-economic data critical for research and policy making, say agricultural economists
12.01.21ICRISAT’s socio-economic data sets for India at the district and village levels, collated over sev…
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GLDC Newsletter 2020
12.01.21It has been a year of both tremendous challenge and growth. Amid a global pandemic…
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