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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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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Africa's litigated democracy
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Feb. 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country’s…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.02.20-
Food security
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Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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Youth Transitions in the drylands: gendered rights in land access and control
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)28.02.20In 2019, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) initiated a…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
AfricaRice27.02.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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The brown revolution: Plant food from toilet waste
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)26.02.20Urban areas around the world are feeling the weight of growing populations. While cities can…
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Modelling farming systems to understand potential outcomes of agricultural interventions
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)25.02.20-
Food security
Three recent studies show how modelling systems can be an effective tool for decision-makers to…
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Policy seminar: Introducing the Food Systems Dashboard
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.02.20-
Food security
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Health
With as many as 32 major reports on food systems out in the past few…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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Policy seminar: The European Union plans to tackle climate change, one value chain at a time
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The European Commission (EC) Green Deal is a critical initiative aimed at making the whole of Eur…
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Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.02.20Biofortification Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in …
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Ugandan experts forecast 40-50% adoption of new bioengineered potato Victoria
International Potato Center (CIP)24.02.20Stakeholders working within the potato sector in Uganda are confident about the wide adoption of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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