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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-
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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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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
21.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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PIM pre-conference workshop on rural transformation at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Selected papers
14.03.18-
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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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
PIM will convene a pre-conference workshop "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challeng…
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RTB and CIP scholarship for Peruvian students to attend World Potato Congress
14.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the International Potato Center …
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
13.03.18-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural fields…
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International Women’s Day
08.03.18-
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and infl…
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Ugandan Emma Naluyima describes her thriving pig+crop farm at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
07.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Emma Naluyima, a Ugandan veterinarian and one-acre pig and crop farmer, making a presentation at…
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GASL’s Fritz Schneider on livestock and the SDGs at Berlin’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
06.03.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fritz Schneider, chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), making a presentation …
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Livestock are taking the limelight in global policymaking fora
21.02.18-
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From Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, detail of one of the many monumental bull figures—the bull being…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
18.02.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition
08.02.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
February 8, 2018 Guest post Justin Yifu Lin Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food…
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“…An exceptional opportunity to promote up-and-coming African researchers”
02.02.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ma…
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FTA’s research domain on livelihood systems receives strong rating
29.01.18-
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Nutrition
Photo by SK Dalal/ICRAF Following the revision and resubmission of Flagship 2 on livelihood system…
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Good investments in agriculture and forestry can benefit smallholders and landscapes
16.01.18-
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF With companies increasingly being seen as key partners in scaling-up eff…
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ILRI and Chinese partners launch new livestock projects, review ongoing research collaboration
14.10.16-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has worked on livestock research-for-developme…
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China’s vice premier ushers in new era of agricultural collaboration
11.08.16-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
A new collaborative program promising to train Chinese Ph.D. and postdoctoral students annually at t…
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New CIP Center in Yanqing, China will enhance potato research and cooperation
24.07.15-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
As potato scientists and representatives of government and industry discuss the latest advances in t…
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