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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
20.01.20The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
09.01.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
17.01.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Webinar: Youth realities, aspirations and transitions to adulthood in dryland agricultural systems
17.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is hosting the webinar ‘Youth realities, aspi…
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2020 Call for Proposals
16.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ca…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
13.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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The crippling of the multilateral trading system
10.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As of today (Dec. 10), the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has…
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African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana
06.12.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) was launched recently to bring together plant breeders…
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Capacity building for Africa’s future agrifood system: challenges and the way forward
03.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
An expert panel at the recent African Conference of Agricultural Economists discussed what should be…
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Do smallholders get the right seed and inputs from their agrodealer?
28.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Many Tanzanian smallholder farmers fail to produce even 1 ton of maize grain per hectare.…
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Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean
25.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The social upheavals occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have equally impacted co…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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Spotlight on Village Seed Entrepreneurs making money from cassava stems in Nigeria
21.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In March of 2019, we visited Village Seed Entrepreneurs (VSEs) in Benue State, Nigeria, that…
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Million Farmers' School program can be a key element in doubling Indian farmer's incomes
15.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes…
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How do earthquakes shape economic behavior?
14.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The economic cost of natural disasters is usually expressed in physical terms: Destruction of assets…
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From Knowledge to Income – Martha Lawrance is recognised as a leading sweetpotato vine multiplier
11.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Martha Lawrance is a 49-year-old woman from the Chogsia, Wa West District of the Upper…
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New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa
11.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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Changing the course on gendered transitions to adulthood in Africa
08.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
First in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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The making of Bangladesh's Blue Revolution
06.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Though fish has long been the largest source of protein in Bangladeshi diets, for decades…
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Rurbanomics: The path to rural revitalization in Africa
05.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The deadlines to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate goals dr…
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