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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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Covid crisis has shown India’s food policy must have buffer stocks at community level too
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)26.05.20Representational image for Indian agriculture | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg Accustomed…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Supporting prosperity through mobility and rural reinvigoration
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)26.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A number of years ago, while interviewing farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe, one of us (Bruce)…
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Fighting Poverty and Malnutrition in Nigeria with Sweetpotatoes
International Potato Center (CIP)25.05.20-
Nutrition
In an ongoing effort to lend support to Nigeria’s campaign to reduce poverty and malnutrition…
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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Getting farmers on the phone to protect livestock and livelihoods during COVID-19 – and beyond
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)25.05.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Continuous collaboration between farmers and scientists is the pinnacle of successful agricultural r…
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COVID-19 calls for renewed focus on eating right and natural
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)24.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Post-COVID-19 scenario offers a unique opportunity to seize the moment and repurpose policies toward…
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Will COVID-19 put the kibosh on major in-person conferences for good?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)23.05.20The COVID-19 global lockdown has made a big dent in daily carbon emissions, according to…
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Virtual event: COVID-19 and the global effort to end food loss and waste by 2030
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, TINE HASLING RASMUSSEN AND JILLIAN HOLZER Can we meet Sustainable Development…
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Leveraging local knowledge to map and link agricultural plots to farmer practices
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.05.20-
Food security
BY JONATHAN R.B. FISHER, YUTA J. MASUDA, WEI ZHANG, TIMOTHY BOUCHER AND CAROLINA CASTILLA Linkin…
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India steps up GIFT tilapia production
WorldFish22.05.20India’s Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), has announced plans to start producing genetic…
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AfricaRice launches new bilingual corporate website
AfricaRice22.05.20Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 22 May 2020 - In honor of the International Day for Biological…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Scaling up research for development in CGIAR
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)21.05.20-
Food security
In a bid to scale impact of its research outputs, ILRI has recently undertaken a…
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10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change
International Potato Center (CIP)21.05.20-
Biodiversity
At the International Potato Center (CIP), World Biodiversity Day has special meaning for our work,…
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Delivering Nourishing Sweet Potatoes to Panama’s Markets Amid COVID-19 Crisis
HarvestPlus21.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Ariquimedes Peralta is a grower of biofortified vitamin A orange sweet potato (OSP) living in…
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Survey suggests rising risk of food and nutrition insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 restrictions continue
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)21.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KALLE HIRVONEN, GASHAW TADESSE ABATE AND ALAN DE BRAUW Countries have taken varied actions to l…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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Mpeda to produce GIFT seeds in Kerala
WorldFish21.05.20KOCHI: Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the research arm of Marine Products Exports Devel…
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