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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
20.05.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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Viewing food system transformation through the country lens
14.04.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post also appears on A4NH’s Food System Idea Exchange, a new blog series…
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Averting an agricultural crisis: Setting Food And Nutrition Systems right during Covid-19 times
14.04.20-
Nutrition
by Nafees Meah, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Basanta Kumar Kar (Recipient of Global Nutrition Le…
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Colombian Farmers Donate Zinc Rice to Coronavirus-Stricken Cartagena
09.04.20-
Nutrition
"One by one we are all mortal. Together, we are eternal." These words of solidarity,…
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition
03.04.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project This compilation of real-life ‘impact…
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IRRI committed to working with partners, governments to ensure continued food and nutrition security amid COVID-19 outbreak
03.04.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across almost 200 countries and territories around the world…
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Building synergies between modernized sweetpotato breeding and seed systems for improved varieties in East and Central Africa
02.04.20-
Nutrition
SweetGAINS (Genetic Advances and Innovative Seed Systems) is a program to accelerate and expand the…
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COVID19 Highlights Need To Ensure Good Nutrition
31.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This well-known quote from Hippocrates…
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Nutrix – the big reach of small fish in nourishing Cambodia
31.03.20-
Nutrition
Lyndon Paul offers a tube-shaped wafer for me to try. It fractures as I bite,…
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Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how COVID-19 may Impact Food and Nutrition Security
30.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
By Stuart Gillespie and Alan Whiteside Given the speed at which COVID-19 is spreading, we must…
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Understanding farmer needs for new sweetpotato varieties
30.03.20-
Nutrition
Jeanne Mukasine hails from Gakenke district in the northern reaches of Rwanda, the country of…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Policy seminar: The changing challenges of hidden hunger
11.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Global efforts to improve nutrition require approaches that focus on the entire food system, leading…
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Study shows high-iron beans improve women’s physical performance
10.03.20-
Nutrition
Iron-biofortified beans improved iron status and physical performance of iron-deficient Rwandan wome…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
03.03.20-
Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
03.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
02.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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