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Polio Provides the Roadmap for Tackling Pandemic and Food Security
11.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
"A tiny microbe has humbled us all – and yet has also provided us with…
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Transforming African food systems for a resilient future
10.09.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository
10.09.20-
Big data
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project,…
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Call for applications for Joint PhD Program WUR, CGIAR and SIPRI on climate security
08.09.20-
Climate
We are looking for Wageningen University and Research (WUR), CGIAR, and the Stockholm International …
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Launch of CGIAR Gender Platform highlighted at African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)
08.09.2007 September, Rwanda -- Women’s preferences, realities, and ambitions have rarely been at the fore…
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CGIAR launches Excellence in Agronomy 2030 to improve outcomes for smallholder farmers amidst climate change
08.09.2007 September, Rwanda -- Over 300 million smallholder farmers in developing countries bear the brunt…
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The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann
03.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Sla…
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Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations to scaling
03.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Integrating trees in farming and pastoral landscapes – agroforestry is one of the most effective…
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Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach
02.09.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
BY MIKE MURPHY, KATE AMBLER AND ALAN DE BRAUW Climate change poses a significant threat to livelih…
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Launch of AfricaRice Annual Report 2019: Toward rice-based food systems transformation in Africa
02.09.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 2 September 2020 - At a time when the need for a…
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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?
02.09.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN…
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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do
01.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit:…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
01.09.20Photo (ICRISAT): Forage variety pearl millet on the research field (left) and farmer’s field (righ…
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Coming together as One CGIAR: New CGIAR System Board membership announced
01.09.20CGIAR announced today the voting member composition of the board of the CGIAR System Organization,…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
31.08.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY VIVIAN HOFFMANN AND EMILY WU In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin—a contaminant produced …
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Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America
31.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When fall armyworm first arrived on the African continent in 2016, the potential loss of…
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Network makes headway in strengthening gender research at IITA
29.08.20The gender science network at IITA has made significant progress in its efforts to enhance…
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Early adopter of YIIFSWA-promoted improved yam varieties enjoys “fantastic” yield
29.08.20Beaming with pride, Chief Joshua Ojedele showed off his 2-hectare yam field cultivated from improved…
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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?
29.08.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
28.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Two pearl millet varieties with 7.0% and 5.4% higher green forage yields as compared to…
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Genetic molecular markers to accelerate genetic gains in crops
28.08.20-
Genomics
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Dr Rajeev Varshney from the Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, ICRISAT, sheds…
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Potato diversity leads to economic gain in Uganda
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
The genebank of the International Potato Centre (CIP) holds more than 6000 accessions of potatoes…
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High altitudes linked to higher rates of stunting
27.08.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY KALEAB BAYE, KALLE HIRVONEN AND EMILY WU Child stunting affects nearly 155 million globally, on…
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CGIAR develops its first shared cross-System Pulse Survey on GDI
27.08.20Senior HR professionals across CGIAR have created a first common Pulse Survey together on Gender…
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