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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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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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Modelling farming systems to understand potential outcomes of agricultural interventions
25.02.20-
Food security
Three recent studies show how modelling systems can be an effective tool for decision-makers to…
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Policy seminar: Introducing the Food Systems Dashboard
25.02.20-
Food security
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Health
With as many as 32 major reports on food systems out in the past few…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
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Book launch: The making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh
21.02.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For decades, high fish prices contributed to poor nutrition in Bangladesh, placing a key source…
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India forum: Securing the harvest for food security
21.02.20-
Food security
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with the unveiling of ICRISAT’s…
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Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
21.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in pearl millet’, …
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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Food security
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
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Does rural Africa have a 'youth problem'?
19.02.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of…
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Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers
18.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit exp…
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Second Biennial Review report highlights urgent need to accelerate progress toward achieving Malabo Declaration goals by 2025
17.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders pledged to conduct a continent-wide Biennial Review…
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