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Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
05.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Crop breeding is helping farmers in the developing world produce higher yields and better products…
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Nitrogen in agriculture
04.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Nitrogen is the most essential nutrient in crop production but also one of the most…
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IFPRI book: What Africa can learn from Asia about agricultural mechanization
04.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Agricultural mechanization has many benefits for developing countries: It raise…
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Embracing natural cycles for a sustainable food system
04.12.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
All farmers, whether they live in the chilly Ethiopian highlands or in the sun-baked plains…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
04.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Estimating the burden of child acute malnutrition accurately
03.12.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO BARBA, LIEVEN HUYBREGTS AND JEF LEROY Across the world, 144 million children under…
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Reducing air pollution in China’s urban areas can improve local housing markets
03.12.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN China’s air pollution is among the worst in the…
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Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar
01.12.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY DEREK HEADEY, THAN ZAW OO, KRISTI MAHRT, XINSHEN DIAO, SOPHIE GOUDET AND ISABEL LAMBRECHT…
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How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries
01.12.20-
Environmental health
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Health
"If the world is to achieve the UN’s goal of providing adequate sanitation and ending…
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Gender dynamics in seed systems development: Emerging research of critical importance
30.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
New PIM Synthesis Brief provides analysis of current issues and an outlook for future research…
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2020 CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference: Boosting China's urban-rural integrated development
30.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Donghe Li China’s rapid economic growth has been driven by urbanization, and vice versa.…
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Banana seed system innovations – assessing decision-making roles to increase their take-up
30.11.20-
Food security
Innovations in seed systems can have a powerful impact on crop production, particularly in…
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History meets hydrology in a South Indian district's perilous water gap
30.11.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kolar district, in India's southern state of Karnataka, has been known for centuries as a…
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Newly launched millet food finder shows a revolution is underway
27.11.20-
Food security
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Health
Millets have sometimes been hailed as the next quinoa but researchers collating a global database…
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Use of scientific evidence for greater partnerships and better policies
27.11.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Surveys on agricultural technology adoption in Nigeria carried out in 2019-2020 revealed gains made …
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Matching seed to farmer
27.11.20-
Food security
Since the earliest days of global wheat breeding at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Molecular breeding speeds development of better seeds
27.11.20-
Food security
To adequately confront rapidly changing plant pests and diseases and safeguard food security for a…
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WorldFish joins united effort to boost climate-smart food systems in Malawi
27.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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In Malawi, land and aquatic food systems engage 80 percent of the population playing a…
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