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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
20.01.20The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Focus on the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden of malnutrition
03.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
On Dec. 16, The Lancet published a new series of papers on The Double Burden of Malnutrition—th…
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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
03.01.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Growing for Gold: improving farming and fishing in Cambodia
03.01.20Thy and and her husband Chhub are rice and vegetable growers and small-scale fishers in…
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Biofortification: A plausible antidote to India's hidden hunger problem
02.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A dip in India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) has rightly created a stir in…
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Double duty actions in nutrition: Preventing harm and maximizing impacts on all forms of malnutrition
02.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Traditionally, the term “malnutrition” has been applied to problems such as micronutrient defici…
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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
30.12.19Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Happy New Year! Here’s a baker’s dozen of ILRI’s top livestock communications in 2019
30.12.19A baker’s dozen of our favourite communications in 2019 are listed and linked to below,…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Pre-breeding efforts for better traits in pigeonpea
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Annual Review Meeting of GCDT-ICRISAT collaborative research project and participation in Pigeonpea …
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Setting the stage for hybrid pearl millet research consortium in West Africa
23.12.19Exciting times ahead as public and private institutions come together to promote millets Seed resear…
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Groundnut breeding program in Burkina Faso gets a boost with seven new improved groundnut varieties
23.12.19More than 20 years after the last groundnut seed variety was registered in the seed…
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New study develops forecasting tools for better detection and control of dengue in Vietnam
19.12.19-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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New CGIAR ‘GENDER’ Platform and investment announced to build more inclusive agricultural benefits and greater food security in developing countries
19.12.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Nairobi, Kenya, 18 December 2019 — CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,…
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We can expand large-scale irrigation in Africa – carefully
19.12.19In the past two decades, African farming systems have made an important evolution. They are…
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The CGIAR Value Chains Community of Practice 2019 workshop: Methods for Diagnosing and Evaluating Agricultural Value Chains
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The workshop, organised by PIM and Wageningen University and Research, brought together the CGIAR Co…
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What we’re missing in the climate-migration story
18.12.19Published as an Op-Ed on Devex The stories are stark and frequent. Climate refugees and…
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‘Science of Discovery to Science of Delivery’ discussed at University of Cambridge
18.12.19Partnerships are key to deliver on ICRISAT’s mission of ‘Science of Discovery to Science of…
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