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Thirty-three new CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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G20 Must Catalyze the Transforming of our Food Systems
01.07.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
CGIAR called on the G20 to foster international cooperation that transforms food systems through a…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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Farmers prefer locally bred CBSD-resistant cassava clones in DRC
14.07.21The USAID-funded Action to Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in the Democratic Republic of…
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IITA to strengthen collaboration with BUK
14.07.21An IITA-Kano delegation led by Station Head Alpha Kamara visited the Vice-Chancellor Bayero Universi…
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Improved eating: Healthy benefits of fortified snacks
14.07.21Eating healthy snacks is one way to combat poor nutrition, while legumes can replace animal-based…
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ENABLE-TAAT provides youth networking platform at Tanzania open day
14.07.21ENABLE-TAAT has held the Tanzanian edition of its open day to increase youth inclusion and…
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Putting youth at the heart of aquatic food system transformations
14.07.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Young people today step into the world at a critical crossroads for our food systems.…
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UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation
13.07.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Repor…
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UNFSS Science Days: Promise of the commons for sustainable and equitable food systems
13.07.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
BY HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The commons (natural resources held and used collectively) sup…
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Resolving tensions between global development goals and local aspirations
13.07.21The Sustainable Development Goals – a set of 17 globally agreed-upon targets for the year 2030 â…
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New high-yielding pigeonpea variety set for release in India, more to come
13.07.21DRG 59, a high-yielding variety of pigeonpea resistant to Fusarium wilt and sterility mosaic disease…
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Haveli cultivation turns desolated landscape into paradise: Case study of Poora Birdha village, Lalitpur district
13.07.21Highlights 200-year-old traditional rainwater harvesting system brought back into practice Construct…
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Modernizing crop breeding to safeguard tomorrow’s populations
13.07.21When designing our research, the most significant variable that crop breeders like me consider is…
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Women in Burundi supported to save time and improve children’s nutrition
13.07.21Malnutrition is a public health concern in Burundi, with the highest level of hunger among…
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Baskets of Golden Eggs shared at the CGIAR June Transfer Marketplace
12.07.21By Amanda Harding, Colleen Anderson, Sonja Vermeulen, Katia Krivonos, Oluchi Ezekannagha, Frank Plac…
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ENABLE-TAAT partners with banks to provide business credit to trained African youth
12.07.21ENABLE-TAAT is supporting its beneficiaries by linking them to financial institutions that can help …
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Researchers give decision-makers tools for better SAI interventions
12.07.21Africa is a major producer of several kinds of cereals like sorghum, millet, wheat, maize,…
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Youth to contribute innovative solutions to world hunger
12.07.21The World Food Forum has called for the massive involvement of youth in developing sustainable…
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CGIAR GENDER Platform Newsletter, June-July 2021, issue 2
12.07.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Welcome to the second 2021 issue of the CGIAR GENDER Platform newsletter. In this issue,…
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BOWEN strengthens partnership with IITA to promote student and youth entrepreneurship
12.07.21IITAÂ continually partners with government and private organizations, including universities, to adv…
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