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Delivering as One CGIAR: Inaugural CGIAR Executive Management Team
06.08.20CGIAR announced today the appointment of its inaugural CGIAR Executive Management Team (EMT), compri…
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A joint stocktaking of CGIAR work on forest and landscape restoration by FTA, PIM and WLE
05.08.20Despite the high level of political engagement and the wide range of organizations involved in…
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Farmers’ responses to warming early in growing seasons can affect yields
03.08.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Yanyan Liu and Emily Wu Most of the time, conversations about the impacts of…
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New project aims to improve food and nutrition security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
03.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the launch meeting via videoconference Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT A recently lau…
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CGIAR Performance Report 2019 now available online
31.07.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An online report detailing research-to-impact results in 2019 across the CGIAR System is now availab…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
03.09.19-
Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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Transform Nutrition West Africa publishes evidence brief on Nigeria's nutrition policy
01.08.19-
Nutrition
To help policymakers in Nigeria better understand the direction of nutrition-relevant policies and t…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
31.07.19-
Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiency affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
26.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Rooting out hunger in Malawi through better potato varieties
23.07.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Near the end of the last potato growing season in Malawi’s district of Dedza, Leonard…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
22.07.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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Digging deeper into gender and equity at ANH Academy Week
21.07.19-
Nutrition
At this year’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week held in Hyderabad, India in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth
16.07.19-
Nutrition
Investing in young children’s nutrition yields substantial economic benefits to society. But that …
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