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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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The human face of urban food systems
16.05.19-
Nutrition
The Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition and Health program aims to provide evidence…
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IITA hosts Australia Awards symposium on irrigation and water resource management
16.05.19-
Food security
Irrigation specialists from Australia, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria gathered for a symposium at II…
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Innovating for change: Interview with Maria Andrade a sweetpotato champion
15.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Nutrition
An accomplished sweetpotato breeder and tireless advocate for improving the nutrition and wellbeing …
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
14.05.19-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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MUST WATCH: Celebrating Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation
14.05.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tomorrow afternoon, 15 May 2019, on the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, campus of the International Livestock…
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Evidence from Malawi: Why agricultural and nutrition education programs should engage both women and men in households
14.05.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Gender norms and inequalities are an important factor in Malawi’s ongoing food security problems. …
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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
13.05.19-
Food security
On May 6, a global panel of scientists representing more than 130 nations released the…
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Balangiga Farmer – Fisherfolk women learn how to make food products from dried cassava grates
08.05.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Who knew so many different products could be made from cassava? Now thanks to the…
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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist
08.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that …
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Global Report on Food Crises 2019: Conflict, climate, and economic shocks keep acute hunger levels above 100 million
07.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With only a slight fall in the number of people facing acute levels of hunger…
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A different focus on stunting
06.05.19-
Nutrition
Is stunting the problem we need to solve, or the indicator of the problems we…
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Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
06.05.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works prog…
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An Integrated, Economically-Sustainable Cassava Seed System is Emerging in Nigeria
02.05.19-
Food security
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The project “Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS)” c…
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DG Sanginga graces handover of aflatoxin laboratory and launch of Aflasafe in Malawi
02.05.19-
Food security
During the recent handover of the Aflatoxin Research and Training laboratory in Malawi on 10…
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New case study presents nine-year follow-up of pilot project to improve food safety in Bodija market, Nigeria
01.05.19-
Health
A case study published in the March 2019 issue of the journal Infection Ecology & Epidemiology…
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Policy outreach to mainstream SIMLESA learning: Q&A with Paswel Marenya
30.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Af…
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Global team cracks genetic code to develop high-yielding, climate resilient chickpea
30.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Research also maps the center of origin and migration route of chickpea In a major…
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More research on African swine fever is urgently needed: No cure, no vaccine and no treatment yet exists for this lethal pig disease
30.04.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Pigs at the commerical drestry farm industry (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) African swine fever …
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