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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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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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It’s time to change the system, not just the technology
23.10.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Society faces enormous challenges in the transition to sustainable rural development. We are unlikel…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Official Launch of CGIAR’s “Crops to End Hunger” Initiative at Borlaug Dialogue
17.10.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
CGIAR announced its new global initiative, Crops to End Hunger, this week at the World…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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A fresh look at the genes behind grain weight in spring bread wheat
09.10.19-
Genomics
To meet the demand for wheat from a rising and quickly urbanizing population, wheat yields…
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Mexico City to host Interdrought 2020
08.10.19-
Climate
Droughts affect crop production across the world. A central challenge for researchers and policymake…
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Scientists propose a low-cost, reliable system to measure soil organic carbon
26.09.19-
Climate
New research by an international team of scientists, including International Maize and Wheat Improve…
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UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
24.09.19-
Big data
CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…
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Large-scale genomics will improve the yield, climate-resilience, and quality of bread wheat, new study shows
23.09.19-
Genomics
Using the full wheat genome map published in 2018, combined with data from field testing…
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Climate smart agriculture: a winning strategy for farming families in El Niño seasons
20.09.19-
Climate
Approaching the homestead of Joseph Maravire and his wife, Reason, on a warm late August…
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Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia
18.09.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
New research shows that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia used various coping mechanisms apart from …
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Back from the brink of extinction
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
Long-term efforts to restore and conserve a collection of Israeli and Palestinian wheat landraces (I…
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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19-
Genomics
Ensuring the access of small-scale farmers to products and potential benefits from genetic engineeri…
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African leaders rely on science and technology to improve food security
28.08.19Rural areas in Africa are facing unprecedented challenges. From high levels of rural-urban migration…
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Scientists use DNA fingerprinting to gauge the spread of modern wheat in Afghanistan
22.08.19Despite the severe social and political unrest that constrain agriculture in Afghanistan, many farme…
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Breaking Ground: Anani Bruce guards Africa’s maize harvest from insect pests
21.08.19Anani Bruce, maize entomologist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) sin…
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