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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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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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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
22.02.18-
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
22.02.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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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
21.02.18-
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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NextGen Cassava gets more support for cassava development
16.02.18Cassava is vital to the food security of millions of Africans who eat some form…
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Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and economic transformation
16.02.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Katarlah Taylor Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and…
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Examining the Philippines energy future and low-carbon development strategies
14.02.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The new paper presents an assessment of alternative, long-term energy supply and low-carbon strategi…
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Cash transfers increase trust in local government
14.02.18February 14, 2018 IFPRI Research Blog David Evans Katrina Kosec Cash transfers increase trust in…
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