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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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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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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
25.01.21The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
25.01.21A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom
25.01.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Every year, 12 million young people enter the labour market across the African continent. Economists…
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Who will empty India’s 100 million new toilets?
25.01.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Improved sanitation is booming, but when the majority of new toilets connect to pits and…
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How one Brazilian state is tackling deforestation within its borders
25.01.21Deforestation in Brazil has been soaring the last few years. And its Amazonian state of…
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Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
23.01.21-
Climate
Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation ac…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Illegal forest-zone oil palm in Indonesia
22.01.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Researchers have identified oil palms growing where they shouldn’t be. Discussions are underway ab…
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Policymakers urged to prioritize aquatic foods to end malnutrition
21.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global policymakers and development funders have been urged to think of fish and other aquatic…
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Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide
19.01.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Virtual launch event January 29, 2021, 9:00-10:00 AM EST Forest tenure pathways to gender equality…
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Fast-tracked adoption of second-generation resistant maize varieties key to managing maize lethal necrosis in Africa
19.01.21-
Genomics
Scientists are calling for accelerated adoption of new hybrid maize varieties with resistance to mai…
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ACRE Africa and IFPRI receive award from Lacuna Fund to develop unique agricultural datasets through smartphones
19.01.21-
Big data
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Climate
Congratulations to our colleagues at ACRE Africa and the International Food Policy Research Instit…
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Giving Africa’s new crop varieties a data boost digitally
19.01.21To increase adoption of new improved varieties in Africa, a webinar was recently organized under…
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Does improving food market access improve rural household nutritional outcome in developing countries?
19.01.21Diversification of farms is often advocated for bringing diet diversity to rural households and impr…
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Nutrition-sensitive approaches from pond to plate in Myanmar
19.01.21-
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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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Looking at aquaculture through a nutrition lens is leading production and dietary shifts toward dive…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
19.01.21-
Biodiversity
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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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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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