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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Untapped: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
07.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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Transform Nutrition West Africa publishes evidence brief on Nigeria's nutrition policy
01.08.19-
Nutrition
To help policymakers in Nigeria better understand the direction of nutrition-relevant policies and t…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
31.07.19-
Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiency affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
26.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
25.07.19-
Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Rooting out hunger in Malawi through better potato varieties
23.07.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Near the end of the last potato growing season in Malawi’s district of Dedza, Leonard…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
22.07.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
Taking a new and more comprehensive approach to quantify the impacts climate change will have…
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Digging deeper into gender and equity at ANH Academy Week
21.07.19-
Nutrition
At this year’s Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week held in Hyderabad, India in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth
16.07.19-
Nutrition
Investing in young children’s nutrition yields substantial economic benefits to society. But that …
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
11.07.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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A milestone in developing food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia
10.07.19-
Nutrition
Efforts to develop food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia reached a milestone in May 2019 when…
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