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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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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
11.07.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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A milestone in developing food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia
10.07.19-
Nutrition
Efforts to develop food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia reached a milestone in May 2019 when…
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AfricaRice hybrid rice varieties spark seed companies’ interest in Africa
09.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Nutrition
9 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A set of four high-yielding hybrid rice varieties with…
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
04.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Nutrition
Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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A day to remember: Scientists and processors exchange on the changes in the cassava value chain in Colombia over the past 20 years
01.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
28.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
26.06.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
24.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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Why now is the moment to invest in nutrition to transform our food systems
21.06.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Genomics
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Special event: New IFPRI research program explores emerging problems of urban food systems
17.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in…
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What developing countries can learn from Europe’s experience with rural revitalization
17.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) will be the focus of a June 19 European Development…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Millions at lower risk of vitamin A deficiency after six-year campaign to promote orange-fleshed sweetpotato
13.06.19-
Nutrition
EMBARGOED TO 00.01 CET, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 More than two million households across six…
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