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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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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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12 years of Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)03.09.19-
Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)03.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
AfricaRice16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)05.08.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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Transform Nutrition West Africa publishes evidence brief on Nigeria's nutrition policy
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)01.08.19-
Nutrition
To help policymakers in Nigeria better understand the direction of nutrition-relevant policies and t…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)31.07.19-
Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiency affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)26.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Rooting out hunger in Malawi through better potato varieties
International Potato Center (CIP)23.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Near the end of the last potato growing season in Malawi’s district of Dedza, Leonard…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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Digging deeper into gender and equity at ANH Academy Week
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)21.07.19-
Nutrition
At this year’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week held in Hyderabad, India in…
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