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Smallholder Farmers Provide the Key to Tackling the Climate Crisis
20.10.21With less than 10 years left to meet the targets set in the Paris Climate…
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CGIAR Makes Commitment at UNFSS for Food Systems Transformation
20.10.21CGIAR Managing Director of Global Engagement and Innovation, Kundhavi Kadiresan, joined heads of sta…
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Climate Change: How Innovative Plant Breeding Can Help Feed The World, Nurture The Planet
19.10.21Mere weeks from now, commitments made at a United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York will…
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European Commission, the Netherlands and Belgium Pledge More Than €220 Million to CGIAR
28.09.21Citing the relationship between climate change and global food security, the European Commission, th…
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CGIAR emphasizes need for research, partnerships and funding at G20 Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting
22.09.21Addressing international delegates at the recent G20 Agricultural Ministers’ Meeting, CGIAR Manag…
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Sustainable, Healthy Diets for All Will Require a Food System Transformation
21.09.21The global development community has been building toward September’s United Nations’ Food Syste…
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CGIAR Priority Interventions to Accelerate Uptake of Research to Rebuild and Strengthen Africa’s Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change
04.10.21Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries; Demand-driven partnerships; Using…
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CGIAR spells out priority interventions to accelerate uptake of research to rebuild and strengthen Africa’s agriculture in the face of climate change
02.10.21Better alignment to the needs and priorities of African countries, demand-driven partnerships to usi…
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Transforming agri-food systems for rural prosperity through scaling an innovative ‘Seed Consortium’ towards higher adoption and impacts
01.10.21Background: Grown on 4.0 M ha, postrainy sorghum is the lifeline of dryland farmers in…
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Using machine learning technology for sustainable coffee farming in Vietnam
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As most of the world relies on coffee, producers, roasters, and investors are becoming more…
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Bangladeshi actress Jannatul Peya champions women in aquatic food systems
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
WorldFish's initiative to increase women's empowerment through small fish production in Banglades…
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How does the Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated in Latin America by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, relate to United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By: Dylan Anderson-BerensPrevious blogs in this series introduced the Food Action Alliance (FAA), it…
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What can international agricultural research for development learn from the Andhra Pradesh chickpea revolution?
30.09.21This blog highlights findings from a recently published articled by Glover, D., Mausch, K., Conti,…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
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Biodiversity
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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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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Two seminars convened by WorldFish, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Inte…
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Roots, tubers and bananas in Central Africa are well suited for climate change
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Climate
As the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa becomes hotter and wetter, root, tuber and…
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Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance launches the Bean Atlas Version 2.0
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Two decades after the Bean Atlas’ first publication, a new digital version has arrived. The…
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European Commission, the Netherlands and Belgium Pledge More Than €220 Million to CGIAR
28.09.21Citing the relationship between climate change and global food security, the European Commission, th…
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AGENT: an EU H2020 funded Project Delivers Universal Access to Genebank Information
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Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The EU-funded H2020 ‘Activated Genebank Network (AGENT)’ project aims to transform genebanks fr…
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Reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems a win for food and nutrition
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
While the world already produces 1.5 times the amount of food required to feed the…
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5 innovations reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Around 35 percent of food harvested from the world’s aquatic food systems—fisheries and aquacult…
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Harnessing diversity within aquatic food systems is key to food and nutrition security
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Around the world, small-scale fisheries and aquaculture have an outsized impact on human health and…
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New drought-tolerant varieties rekindle hopes of food security in drought-prone Makueni County
27.09.21Hoping against hope of decent harvests, farmers in the semi-arid and arid regions of eastern…
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Agroecological transformation for sustainable food systems
27.09.21The urgency of agroecological transformation of agrifood systems linked to SDGs will be one of…
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High-level event: The key role of donors in food systems transformation
24.09.21BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND SARA GUSTAFSON Despite tremendous progress made in the last decade to…
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