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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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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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Press Release: FFAR Grant Develops Climate-Resilient Wheat
11.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
FFAR + CIMMYT NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Brian Oakes, FFAR: 202-604-5756, boakes@founda…
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Four ways One CGIAR breeding programs can walk the talk on innovation
11.01.21-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Hugo Campos and Michael Quinn In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and…
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Agricultural value chain finance can help drive Myanmar’s agricultural growth
11.01.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SIDDHARTHA BASU, ALAN DE BRAUW, KHIN PWINT OO AND RUSSELL TOTH Surrounded by some…
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Taking stock of value chain development
07.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In 1967 Albert O. Hirschman, the pioneering development economist, published Development Projects Ob…
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Big costs, bigger rewards: How $33 billion in spending each year can help end hunger sustainably by 2030
07.01.21-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The Ceres2030 project has shown the urgent need for additional investments—a…
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Shrimp Farming and Research in Bangladesh Adapts to COVID-19 Pandemic
07.01.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted tremendously every aspect of the economy in Bangladesh, including…
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Thriving with complexity
06.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Visiting Margaret Nalujja with Elliot Baligeya of UFVEPA. You can see the charcoal cooler behind…
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Policy seminar: Prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area
05.01.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF On Jan. 1, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) formally took…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
31.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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Policy seminar: Expanding policy research to strengthen Eurasia’s food systems
29.12.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Along with other regions of the world, Eurasia has been hit hard…
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10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
24.12.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global…
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Announcing CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa
23.12.20-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the successful …
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PIM News: November-December 2020
22.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Dear colleagues and friends, Welcome to the final issue of PIM News in 2020! As…
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Policy seminar: Promoting recovery and resilience for Latin America’s agrifood industry
22.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY ADRIANA CAMPOS, JONATHAN HEPBURN AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO The COVID-19 pandemic has presented serious…
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Transformative engagements – a new way to discuss gender relations in agriculture
21.12.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
For years now, gender equality has been a central objective in international development agendas. Th…
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From ruptures to fault lines: tracing the global impact of COVID-19 on migrants and rural development
21.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Migrants are the quintessential global citizens, leaving their places of birth and moving across bor…
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A no-meat diet everywhere will not solve the climate crisis
21.12.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
People in industrialized regions like the United States of America or Europe are generally urged…
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Irrigating fodder crops to improve nutrition for animals and people in Ethiopia
20.12.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When livestock are fed high-quality fodder, produced with the help of irrigation, they deliver bette…
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