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Smallholder Farmers Provide the Key to Tackling the Climate Crisis
20.10.21With less than 10 years left to meet the targets set in the Paris Climate…
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CGIAR Makes Commitment at UNFSS for Food Systems Transformation
20.10.21CGIAR Managing Director of Global Engagement and Innovation, Kundhavi Kadiresan, joined heads of sta…
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Climate Change: How Innovative Plant Breeding Can Help Feed The World, Nurture The Planet
19.10.21Mere weeks from now, commitments made at a United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York will…
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European Commission, the Netherlands and Belgium Pledge More Than €220 Million to CGIAR
28.09.21Citing the relationship between climate change and global food security, the European Commission, th…
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CGIAR emphasizes need for research, partnerships and funding at G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting
22.09.21Addressing international delegates at the recent G20 Agricultural Ministers’ Meeting, CGIAR Manag…
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Sustainable, Healthy Diets for All Will Require a Food System Transformation
21.09.21The global development community has been building toward September’s United Nations’ Food Syste…
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Join the PABRA Parallel session at Africa Plant Breeders Conference 2021
11.10.21The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA-Africa) is a great example of a successful CGIAR-NARES …
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New climate-resilient, disease-resistant chickpea varieties coming farmers’ way
11.10.21Developed through genomics-assisted breeding by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) a…
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Young farm entrepreneurs look at high-biomass sorghum and pearl millet for biofuel feedstock
11.10.21The Government of India’s concerted efforts to replace 20% fossil fuels with ethanol blends by…
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Nutrient-rich bean varieties and market linkages changing fortunes for farmers in Bomet County
11.10.21I was stranded and did not know where to get school fees for my children.…
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Trial by pasta: new uses for traditional Ethiopian wheat varieties
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Alliance has joined with Ethiopian research partners and Italian pasta makers to explore a…
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Promoting sustainable food production by upscaling best performing varieties of finger millet and bean through seed and product value chains: experiences from Hoima, Uganda
11.10.21Background Food and nutritional security of resource poor farmers globally is increasingly under thr…
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Can Weather Index Insurance be a win for all?
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Developing countries are already enduring the worst of climate change. Floods and droughts are impac…
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Machine hiring centers create jobs for youth while saving time, cost and labor for farmers
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A farm machine-hiring center set up in two villages in South India is showing how…
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The challenge of securing women's land rights in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Land rights remain a complex and ambiguous subject for the majority of people in sub-Saharan…
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ILRI researchers contribute to Scientific and Technical Review special issue on veterinary services
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A special issue (Aug 2021) of the Scientific and Technical Review journal of the World…
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Former WorldFish researcher awarded prize for young career scientists
09.10.21Jessica Bogard, a dietician and public health nutritionist from Australia, was awarded the 2021 APEC…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
HIGHLIGHTS Researchers call for the integration of fisheries into rice systems and irrigation scheme…
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Policy seminar: AATM report outlines opportunities and challenges for intra-African agricultural trade
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
BY SWATI MALHOTRA African agricultural trade has yet to reach its potential, despite progress over…
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Alliance and FAO celebrate International Year for Fruits and Vegetables
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To celebrate the International Year for Fruits and Vegetables, the Alliance teamed up with the…
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National breeding institutes deliver initial program costing at in-person training course
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Big data
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Genomics
A new costing tool is helping national breeding programs get the financial data needed to impr…
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Diverse aquatic food production key to sustainable diets, finds new research
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Nutrition
A landmark study has shown significant potential for aquatic foods to become more sustainable, compa…
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DROUGHT-PROOFING BUNDELKHAND: Reviving rainwater harvesting traditions
06.10.21How is Bundelkhand drought-proofed? ICRISAT has developed an innovative landscape management approac…
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Scaling groundnut and sorghum seed in Eastern Africa (Tanzania)
06.10.21The Innovation Fund from the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC)…
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