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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
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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
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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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Malawi's new reality: Fall armyworm is here to stay
26.02.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
February 26, 2018 IFPRI Blog Kimberly Keeton Malawi's new reality: Fall armyworm is here to…
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Gazette notification of Golden Rice approval by FSANZ
25.02.18GR2E Golden Rice passes FSANZ safety standards.The Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code has bee…
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The multibillion dollar question: How much will it cost to end hunger and undernutrition?
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
February 23, 2018 IFPRI Blog Shenggen Fan The multibillion dollar question: How much will it…
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Is the Current Agriculture Technology Strategy Unsuitable for Getting Smallholders Out of Poverty?
23.02.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Currently, agriculture technology strategies are mostly based on implementing technologies and innov…
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BOOK RELEASE: The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in Ghana
22.02.18Feb 22, 2018 Press Release BOOK RELEASE: The Cocoa Coast: The Board-Managed Cocoa Sector in…
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Jean Hanson: Building the next generation of genebank managers
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Biodiversity
Jean Hanson, the retiring leader of the Forage Diversity Project at the International Livestock Rese…
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Farmer-buyer collaboration can help increase farm productivity in Nepal
22.02.18Contract farming , a conditional arrangement on inputs and/or output between farmers and buyers, cou…
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Ben Juliano, renowned cereal chemist & national scientist, passes away
22.02.18By Gene HettelBienvenido O. “Ben” Juliano, 81, world-renown cereal chemist and Philippine Nation…
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ACM levels the playing field for women and men in forest-adjacent communities
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Photo by John Baptist Wandera/CIFOR Aimed at enhancing women’s participation as well as identifyin…
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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
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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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