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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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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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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
HarvestPlus09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)09.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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New Ethiopia Study: Reach of the CGIAR System Much Larger Than That of Individual Innovations
CGIAR09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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IITA paper on genome editing among most read Open Access journal
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)07.11.20A paper by an IITA Principal Scientist, Leena Tripathi, on ‘CRISPR/Cas9 editing of endogenous b…
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Stakeholders meet virtually to discuss shared plans for One Health Challenge
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)07.11.20The CGIAR Two Degree Initiative for Food and Agriculture recently organized an online stakeholder co…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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ICRISAT: innovation broker working with private sector An interview with Ram Dhulipala
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.11.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s iHub platform was recently highlighted in the Food & Business Knowledge Platform for…
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Environment Minister launches women-owned food processing unit in Telangana
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mr Allola Indrakaran Reddy, Minister for Endowment, Law, Forest and Environment, Telangana, recently…
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A catastrophe avoided
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)05.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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Making digitalization work for African agriculture: The role of the enabling environment
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)05.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BENJAMIN K. ADDOM AND HEIKE BAUMÜLLER Fourth in a series of blog posts on…
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How can I optimize my breeding scheme?
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)04.11.20-
Food security
New series of manuals developed by EiB is a practical guide to designing crossing, evaluation…
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Paper: Conceptualizing COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)04.11.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts food security in a number of ways, from disrupting food systems…
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New research in Vietnam shows holistic approach to school-based interventions required to promote healthy eating among children
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)04.11.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research study by scientists from Vietnam's National Institute of Nutrition and the CGIAR…
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What can the last 30 years of research tell us?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global climate change represents an existential threat to many of the world’s most vulnerable farm…
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IWMI receives the 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award
IWMI04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This is in recognition of the Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product developed by IWMI scientist…
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