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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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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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Build trust, build lives…
19.02.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
“Farmers thought we were coming to steal their money!” Microfinance specialist Lamine Sountoura …
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: How an upland watershed got its groundwater back
19.02.21-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Celebrating a fruitful partnership that spurred a millet movement in India
15.02.21If millets are regaining their lost place in Indian menus, considered as top contenders for…
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Climate-smart pigeonpea sparks phenomenal expansion across Malawi
15.02.21A whopping 49% increase in cropping area, 153 % increase in production and 68 %…
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African project highlights importance of legume crops on World Pulses Day
12.02.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Could legumes be the key to food production sustainability and climate change resilience? They consu…
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Building capacity in crop modeling today for a better tomorrow
12.02.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Young Malawian researchers are being trained in crop modeling to tackle land, water and climate…
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Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes
05.02.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Manage…
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Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’
05.02.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
05.02.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time
29.01.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…
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WIRES: Newly launched platform to connect and inspire women in research across CGIAR
29.01.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A new employee-led group, formed to support and celebrate women in science and research at…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Young Malian researchers gear up for grand challenges with crop modeling
08.01.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
UE-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
31.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A 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
24.12.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global…
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Genomics-assisted breeding delivers high-yielding, wilt resistant chickpea for commercial cultivation in central India
18.12.20-
Genomics
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Nutrition
A high-yielding and wilt resistant variety with a yield potential double to that of existing…
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Upskilling climate change experts in Mali: Training begins with live project synopsis
18.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
A training program initiated by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency is upskilli…
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