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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-
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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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Turning down the heat in Indonesia’s oil palm industry
25.03.18-
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In Indonesia, palm oil is a hot industry in more ways than one. In 2015…
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Launch of the IPBES regional assessments
24.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…
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Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
23.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…
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2018 Global Food Policy Report tracks impacts of antiglobalism and outlines key reforms
23.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The rise of anti-globalization politics and policies around the world poses threa…
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Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
23.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of…
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InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water
23.03.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…
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The power of science to halt deforestation
23.03.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…
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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
23.03.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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‘Move out, move up’ approach could ease India’s farm crisis: IFPRI chief (The Hindu)
23.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The Hindu published an article in which IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, outlines how a …
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Seeds of Renaissance: Changing lives in Borno
22.03.18Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated exactly…
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World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara
22.03.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
March 22, 2018 IFPRI Blog Hua Xie Claudia Ringler World Water Day: Feeding millions from…
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Workshop on Enhancing Pulses Productivity in Eastern India
22.03.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
West Bengal, India, March 3 – ICARDA India conducted a day-long training for farmers to…
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Phys.org: Agriculture must make water use go further
22.03.18In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
22.03.18-
Big data
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While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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At the World Water Forum 2018
21.03.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
21.03.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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