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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
04.11.19-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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Mobile-based monitoring tool rolled out for national partners in 7 African countries
01.11.19-
Big data
“The MLE [Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation] tool MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation of Agri-Sci…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
Big data
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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A BIG Win…for Big Data with Big Benefits!
21.10.19-
Big data
We are delighted to announce that we are one of the winners at the CGIAR…
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A new approach to modeling: Placing sustainable development at its core
18.10.19-
Big data
In June, a team of experts in modeling and sustainable development policy making (including IFPRI's…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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UN-sponsored report acknowledges CIMMYT’s use of data and technologies to promote sustainable farming in Latin America
24.09.19-
Big data
CIMMYT’s projects in Latin America feature in a new report that aims to help countries…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
22.05.19-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Genomics
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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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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
15.04.19-
Big data
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
02.04.19-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Four Surprising Ways Mode and Gender Can Transform Your Survey Data
19.03.19-
Big data
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Mobile data collection technologies are increasingly being used to collect data remotely. However, t…
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Exploring young Africans’ role and engagement in the rural economy
15.03.19-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
How do young rural Africans engage in the rural economy? How important is farming relative…
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Digital imaging tools make maize breeding much more efficient
11.03.19-
Big data
To keep up with growing maize demand, breeders aim at optimizing annual yield gain under…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
Big data
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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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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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Farmer science accelerates climate adaptation
19.02.19-
Big data
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Climate
A new study in PNAS addresses the challenge of climate adaptation in a way that…
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How Data Collected To Identify Cassava Varieties in Vietnam Helped Southeast Asia Respond Rapidly To a Viral Disease Outbreak
06.02.19-
Big data
The collection of data on the adoption of CGIAR-related crop varieties is a priority for…
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