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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-19 and global trade implications for food systems and healthy diets
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)21.05.20-
Food security
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Health
The authors consider rippling impacts of COVID-19 on trade as food system actors experience loss…
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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)20.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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The challenge of charcoal
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)20.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part two in a series of three stories that…
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What can COVID-19 teach us about responding to climate change?
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)20.05.20In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have been taking a range of different measures,…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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How small fishers in Kerala’s Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19…
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Covid-19: Hitting rural farming
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Nigeria
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A family shows their fish smoker, Tungan Mairuwa village, Kainji Lake, NW Nigeria. Photo by…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Myanmar
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume…
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Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
WorldFish19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…
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Youth in fisheries, aquaculture and value chains: A study and foundation for building back better
WorldFish19.05.20As impacts of the global pandemic COVID-19 continue to spread, young people face particular challeng…
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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)19.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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This little seed went to market
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
International Potato Center (CIP)18.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)16.05.20-
Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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