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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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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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IWMI and Covid-19
IWMI20.04.20-
Health
The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…
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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)19.04.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…
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Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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Transforming food systems for women’s empowerment and equity
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY LAURA ZSELECZKY, HAZEL MALAPIT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND AGNES QUISUMBING Shutdowns to control th…
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Satellite maps can help nations make critical food production decisions amid coronavirus
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)17.04.20-
Food security
Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red…
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Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal
IWMI17.04.20-
Health
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)17.04.20-
Food security
This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.04.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)16.04.20-
Food security
Food systems are transforming rapidly, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, yet the dyn…
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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DAVID LABORDE, WILL MARTIN AND ROB VOS As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, social and economic re…
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Scaling up the use of cassava peel as animal feed in Nigeria
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)16.04.20-
Food security
An innovative process turns cassava waste into valuable livestock feed and is ripe for scaling…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Produce more coarse grains to meet pandemic nutrition challenge
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the…
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