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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Jo Swinnen joins IFPRI as new director general
07.01.20IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes
30.12.19Food systems can be effectively transformed by identifying drivers of food choice and factors influe…
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E-flow calculator measures water needs – and it’s being used by policy-makers
08.01.20A methodology used to ensure sustainable freshwater use and supply is now being used to…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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Knowledge for a Sustainable Food Future: New Foresight Tool Examines Impact of Agricultural Investments
07.01.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
How can we feed 10 billion people by 2050? How much and in what ways…
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Jo Swinnen joins IFPRI as new director general
07.01.20IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist…
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With technology and trust, we can move mountains
07.01.20If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
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Big data
In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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Two animated shorts on practical steps to improve animal welfare and reduce drug resistance in poor countries
06.01.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Start this new year (and decade) right. Watch these two little animated films for practical…
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Focus on the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden of malnutrition
03.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
On Dec. 16, The Lancet published a new series of papers on The Double Burden of Malnutrition—th…
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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Growing for Gold: improving farming and fishing in Cambodia
03.01.20Thy and and her husband Chhub are rice and vegetable growers and small-scale fishers in…
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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to India's hidden hunger problem
02.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in…
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Double duty actions in nutrition: Preventing harm and maximizing impacts on all forms of malnutrition
02.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Traditionally, the term “malnutrition” has been applied to problems such as micronutrient defici…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
30.12.19Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Happy New Year! Here’s a baker’s dozen of ILRI’s top livestock communications in 2019
30.12.19A baker’s dozen of our favourite communications in 2019 are listed and linked to below,…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
27.12.19-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa
23.12.19Exciting times ahead as public and private institutions come together to promote millets Seed resear…
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