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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-
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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-
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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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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
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While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Launching the AgriFoodTrust platform
12.05.20-
Big data
A new testing and learning platform for digital trust and transparency technologies — such as…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
30.04.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Despite many exemptions from lockdown, the agricultural sector in India has experienced major disrup…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
27.04.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
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Climate
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
24.04.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Phone app gives opportunity to improve water productivity in Lebanon
21.04.20-
Big data
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming
30.03.20-
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Genomics
A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
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Climate
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development
21.02.20-
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
“The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
06.01.20-
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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Key technology for biofortification goes online
13.12.19-
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Biodiversity
Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
10.12.19-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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