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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
20.05.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
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Harnessing the sweetpotato’s potential
17.02.20-
Nutrition
Sweetpotatoes can be grown on marginal land with few inputs, and orange-fleshed varieties can make…
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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
14.02.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Policy seminar: Can trade ensure food security and access to diverse and sustainable nutrition?
11.02.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The global trade conflicts of the past couple of years have created uncertainty for agriculture,…
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The world needs higher-quality diets. But is better nutrition affordable for all?
31.01.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Messages around healthy eating are nothing new—but nowadays we are increasingly told to eat well …
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Diversifying diets and incomes sources in Malawi with orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes
30.01.20-
Nutrition
Diet diversification and food security in Malawi are distinct challenges as most farmers are used…
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On vegan diets and brain nutrients—some unsettling research reports in a (surprisingly) still murky research area
28.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Meat and Eggs, by Felix Vallotton, 1918 (via Wikiart). The vegan diet is low in—or,…
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A4NH researchers publish systematic literature review on indices of diet quality
26.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A4NH researchers with Wageningen University & Research and Bioversity International conducted a …
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Critical literature review sheds light on drivers of food systems
26.01.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The rapid transformation of food systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, will hav…
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A4NH compiles glossary on food systems
26.01.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What is a food system? How does a food system differ from a value chain?…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Equity in agriculture-nutrition-health research: What have we been researching and what are the gaps?
19.01.20-
Nutrition
To understand what is needed in tackling different aspects of inequity in agriculture for better…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
17.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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The meat wars: A backlash is occurring on the backlash to meat dietary recommendations published late last year
16.01.20-
Nutrition
Roy Lichenstein, Standing Rib (via Wikiart). On 19 Nov 2019, guidelines were published in the…
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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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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
14.01.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
irst in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people
10.01.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously…
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