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Addressing Inflation Requires Global Food Systems Transformation
20.09.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With food prices playing such a significant role in inflation, particularly in the Global South,…
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Galvanizing Food Systems Transformation in South Asia
12.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
New Initiative builds on CGIAR’s collective strengths and brings together stakeholders to address …
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Africa Must Fast-track Adoption of Proven and Sustainable Solutions to Survive Food Crisis
05.09.22The repercussions of the global food crisis, coupled with a protracted drought and a challenging…
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CGIAR Scientist Receives the 2022 Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application
01.09.22Dr. Mahalingam Govindaraj explains how CGIAR helped him to develop the ground-breaking work which le…
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Namukolo Covic Appointed Regional Director, East & Southern Africa, Amid Boost to Regional Leadership
24.08.22Dr. Namukolo Covic, ILRI Director General’s representative to Ethiopia and CGIAR Country Convenor,…
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CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2021 Now Available Online
29.07.22In 2021, CGIAR celebrated its 50th year of delivering critical science and innovations to address…
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In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
11.02.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fi…
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RTB pushes for gender-responsive technology design and deployment
10.02.21-
Gender equality
Women in smallholder farm households do much of the work on roots, tubers and bananas.…
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Breeding scientists are women of their word
09.02.21-
Gender equality
If you had to choose one word that symbolizes “women in science,” what would it…
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Lightbulb moments
09.02.21-
Gender equality
The challenges facing our food system are growing, both in size and in complexity. In…
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Does bottom-up monitoring improve public services? What we found in Uganda
09.02.21-
Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT AND CAROLINE MIEHE In many developing countries, poor delivery of public…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
09.02.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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How women’s empowerment can expand crop diversification as a climate adaptation strategy in Bangladesh
05.02.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
BY ELIZABETH BRYAN, ALEX DE PINTO, GREG SEYMOUR, PRAPTI BHANDARY AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN Bangladesh’…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
05.02.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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PIM News: January 2021
02.02.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this issue, covering January 2021, we are happy to share our recent and upcoming…
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Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
02.02.21-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti…
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Study: Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
01.02.21-
Gender equality
Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside…
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WIRES: Newly launched platform to connect and inspire women in research across CGIAR
29.01.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new employee-led group, formed to support and celebrate women in science and research at…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
28.01.21-
Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
28.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, GUUSH BERHANE, JOHN HODDINOTT AND KIBROM TAFERE Multiple studies have documented…
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Using priming experiments to better understand gender attitudes
26.01.21-
Gender equality
by Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song Sticky gender attitudes? Research…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
26.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
26.01.21-
Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom
25.01.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Every year, 12 million young people enter the labour market across the African continent. Economists…
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