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Agrifood Systems as Part of the Solution: Spotlight Conversations on Agriculture Innovation
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)30.01.23Are we investing enough to end hunger by 2030, the date set for its termination…
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Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex dome…
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Birds eye view of CGIAR’s Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR)
CGIAR16.12.22Climate, political and economic crises are putting millions at risk of poverty and hunger. We…
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CGIAR Wins International Recognition for Progress in Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
CGIAR15.12.22Paris, France, December 15, 2022 – CGIAR took top prize in the “Diversity and Inclusion” ca…
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Can we Still End Hunger by 2030? CGIAR and the Economist Discuss What it Will Take
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)13.12.22The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, to end hunger by 2030, has become…
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25th Meeting of the System Board & Retreat – A Communique
CGIAR12.12.22The CGIAR System Board meeting and retreat, held on December 8-9, 2022, in Nairobi, was…
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Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)09.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …
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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.07.18-
Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)06.07.18-
Food security
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Health
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)06.07.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
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Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)06.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)05.07.18-
Nutrition
Hyderabad, 5 July 2018| India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher ir…
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Mutating diseases drive wheat variety turnover in Ethiopia, new study shows
CGIAR Research Program on Wheat05.07.18Rapidly emerging and evolving races of wheat stem rust and stripe rust disease—the crop’s deadli…
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RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)05.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…
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Damned if you don’t!
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)05.07.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)04.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Gaharu: A migration story
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)03.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - When the “gaharu rush” began, the migrants came in their hundreds. Suddenly, in…
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Targeting open defecation, other factors accelerates anemia reduction among pregnant women in India
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)03.07.18-
Health
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT AND SUMAN CHAKRABARTI One in two pregnant women in India are anemic. This…
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Climate change impacts on rice in Africa
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)03.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)02.07.18-
Gender equality
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
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Momentum for U.N. decade of ecological restoration grows ahead of Nairobi GLF
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)02.07.18-
Environmental health
A proposal by Brazil to pool global resources and dedicate 10 years to promoting the…
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Lessons in scaling up agriculture and building sustainability from Brazil and beyond
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)02.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD The agricultural changes in Brazil, Asia, and the United States in recent…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)02.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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