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What’s next for CGIAR?
20.02.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
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Spraying locust swarm is ineffective – IITA entomologist
17.02.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya battle huge swarms of desert locusts, great efforts are underway…
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Super beans for a climate-stressed world
16.02.20-
Climate
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Genomics
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Nutrition
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, beans are a delicious, nutritious and…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
14.02.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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Fishing Can Be Profitable for Emerging Economies, but …
07.02.20People who live in developing nations don’t just need income; they also need nourishment Not…
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Growing for Gold: improving farming and fishing in Cambodia
03.01.20Thy and and her husband Chhub are rice and vegetable growers and small-scale fishers in…
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Global symposium brings scientists and policymakers together for a “new vision” of sustainable fisheries
11.12.19Fish harvested from naturally occurring stocks in ocean, coastal and inland waters are crucia…
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Oceans will be key to future food security – new expert report
09.12.19A new report estimates that the ocean could provide six times more food than…
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Global tilapia industry under threat from highly contagious disease
22.11.19The world’s second most farmed fish, tilapia, is under threat from a highly contagious disease…
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WorldFish Workshop: Small Fish for Nutrition
15.11.19On 3 December 2019, WorldFish Cambodia will be organizing Small Fish for Nutrition Final Workshop…
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Towards a sustainable ocean economy: An interview with Norway’s Minister of Fisheries and Seafood, Harald T Nesvik.
14.11.19At the Our Ocean 2019 conference in Norway, recently, Tana Lala-Pritchard, Director, Communic…
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WorldFish nets big wins in big data competition
25.10.19Two innovative WorldFish-led projects are to receive a total of USD$225,000 from the CGIAR…
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Yumiko Kura of WorldFish honored by Cambodian Government
21.10.19Yumiko Kura, WorldFish Country Director for Cambodia, has been awarded the Commander of Sahametrei m…
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Puting fish ‘back on the plate’ in nutrition debate An interview with Eddie Allison, WorldFish Honorary Fellow
14.10.19Research published recently in Nature showed that, in many developing countries, local fish species …
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Fish and aquatic foods for healthier people and a sustainable planet
14.10.19A message from WorldFish's Director General for World Food Day and International Days of Rural…
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Making sense of fuzzy data: new approach promises clear insights for tackling disease outbreaks in farmed fish
13.10.19A quick, cost-effective, Cloud-based solution to one of the biggest challenges to fish farming could…
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Fish micronutrients ‘slipping through the hands’ of malnourished people
26.09.19-
Nutrition
New research published reveals the potential of marine fisheries to help tackle nutrient deficiencie…
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The future of aquatic foods – including lab-grown “synthetic” fish – spurs new agreement between WorldFish and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
24.09.19(Penang, Malaysia – 17thSept 2019) – The need to better understand the future of aquatic foods…
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Partnering for success: Sector unites to grow aquaculture in Timor-Leste
29.08.19At Timor-Leste’s 2nd National Aquaculture Forum in Dili, recently, stakeholders discussed ways to …
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Raising a unified voice: Supporting African small-scale fishers and fish workers to be heard
21.08.19Bertha Kporvi (interviewee) at Sekondi market selling smoked fish in Sekondi, Ghana. Forty represent…
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‘I can’t catch enough fish’: Balancing water needs for farmers and fishers in Myanmar
21.08.19Water control infrastructure in Myanmar. These sluices are used to stop saltwater intruding up the…
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How nearshore devices increase fish catches and improve food security in Timor-Leste
19.08.19Small motor boats anchored off Uaroana, Atauro Island, Timor-Leste. New research from Timor-Leste ha…
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