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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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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemicÂ
22.04.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in Sahel
21.04.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and…
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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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Earth Day 2020: Lessons for human survival from a pandemic and a global environment under stress
21.04.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
BY WEI ZHANG, ELIZABETH BRYAN, CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The 50th anniversary of Ea…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure
20.04.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
23.03.20-
Climate
Zambia - It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of…
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News Trust: Fears over handwashing in Africa to stem coronavirus seen as trigger for change
22.03.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Aid workers and advisors said countries should seize the moment ahead of World Water Day…
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Systems thinking at work in South Asia’s food production
20.03.20-
Climate
In 2009, state governments in Northwest India implemented a policy designed to reduce groundwater ex…
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The role of agroforestry in forest restoration
20.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) was launched in 201…
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Economist Intelligence Unit: As the world’s philanthropists boost climate funding, let’s make water a priority
20.03.20-
Climate
Claudia Sadoff, Director General of IWMI, argues that our efforts to mitigate the impacts of…
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2020 the Year of #Water4Climate
20.03.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
This year’s World Water Day focuses on water and climate change – and how the…
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COVID-19 is a deadly reminder that inclusive water supply and sanitation matters for all of us
20.03.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Since the COVID-19 crisis escalated, we have been reminded daily that one of the most…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
Big data
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Climate
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
11.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and…
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