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Kanayo Nwanze to bring voice of One CGIAR to UN Food Systems Summit
07.04.20-
Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze will represent a unified CGIAR at next year’s United Nations Food…
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition: charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project
05.04.20This compilation of real-life ‘impact’ stories from the Tropical Legumes projects over the past …
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How we can use the COVID-19 disruption to improve food systems and address the climate emergency
03.04.20-
Climate change
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Food security
At first glance, the COVID-19 crisis appears to have nothing to do with the climate…
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COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa’s vital informal urban food trade
31.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor…
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IITA identifies opportunities to make a difference amidst COVID-19 spread across Africa
28.03.20As COVID-19 or coronavirus gets closer to home—Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agr…
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COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
27.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some…
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Towards a sustainable, responsible and efficient livestock sector—Jimmy Smith at the Berlin Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
22.02.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith served on a panel at the kick-off event for Berlin’s…
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Researchers use DNA prediction models to speed up banana breeding
21.02.18-
Genomics
An international team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that it is possible…
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Policy seminar: Boosting investments in healthy food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
21.02.18-
Nutrition
February 21, 2018 IFPRI Blog Tea Franich Christine Campeau Policy seminar: Boosting investments in h…
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Livestock are taking the limelight in global policymaking fora
21.02.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, detail of one of the many monumental bull figures—the bull being…
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Adolescent nutrition: Overlooked problem, lasting consequences
20.02.18-
Nutrition
Adolescents account for nearly one-third of the global population. With the incredible amount of phy…
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IRRI, the Chinese Academy for Agricultural Sciences, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation team up to develop rice varieties for a Greener Revolution
19.02.18The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) together with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural S…
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IRRI and Renewable Energy for Rural Areas’ partnership in Nepal introduces solar bubble dryer to address farmers’ problem in paddy drying
19.02.18Spring rice contributes around 20 percent of the total rice production in Nepal. However, farmers…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
18.02.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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Financing a sustainable food future
16.02.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla Financing a sustainable food future Argentina shou…
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NextGen Cassava gets more support for cassava development
16.02.18Cassava is vital to the food security of millions of Africans who eat some form…
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Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and economic transformation
16.02.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Katarlah Taylor Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and…
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Examining the Philippines energy future and low-carbon development strategies
14.02.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The new paper presents an assessment of alternative, long-term energy supply and low-carbon strategi…
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Cash transfers increase trust in local government
14.02.18February 14, 2018 IFPRI Research Blog David Evans Katrina Kosec Cash transfers increase trust in…
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Workshop on Agriculture Development Support Project aims to improve irrigation practices in Myanmar
14.02.18The Myanmar Department of Agriculture (DOA), together with the International Rice Research Institute…
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Scaling up biofortified crops: Which ones, where and when?
13.02.18-
Nutrition
In 2017 HarvestPlus developed a new, 5-year strategic plan for 2018-2022. The goal of this strate…
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Climate change to adversely impact grain production in China by 2030
13.02.18-
Climate
February 13, 2018 IFPRI Blog Man Li Climate change to adversely impact grain production in…
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Dams, Data and Decisions
13.02.18-
Big data
As dam construction surges across Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, major changes in river flows, se…
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The bean that could withstand hurricanes
13.02.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
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