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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Climate Security in Colombia
Leanne Zeppenfeldt18.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Silage from sweetpotato vines – proven benefits for livestock farmers and feed suppliers
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)18.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Making silage from sweetpotato vines can be a valuable source of feed for improved animal…
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Climate Security in the Sahel
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)18.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
WorldFish18.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Crowdsourced data reveals threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to multiple disruptions in food demand and supply, and while…
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After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
IWMI17.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
WorldFish17.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Genebanks - Leveraging Crop Diversity to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Nutritious
HarvestPlus16.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Marcela Santaella’s highest priority is making sure that storage conditions are perfect at all tim…
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CGIAR Congratulates Ismahane Elouafi on her Appointment as Chief Scientist at FAO
CGIAR16.11.20CGIAR announced today that Ismahane Elouafi has stepped down from the CGIAR System Board with…
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Saving water and time
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)13.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“I wonder why I never considered using drip irrigation for all these years,” says Michael…
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Rice-fish systems - back to the future
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)13.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)12.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)12.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units organize Phytosanitary Awareness Week
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)11.11.20As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests experienced with germplasm distributi…
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Measuring the true cost of food
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)11.11.20-
Food security
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
IWMI11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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