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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Discover what urban wetlands are worth
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)31.10.18-
Environmental health
[caption id="attachment_139075" align="alignnone" width="300"] Colombo Wetlands Complex[/capt…
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)30.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit: BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)30.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds
IWMI29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers at Africa Water Week call for efforts to “decolonize” and improve water permit syste…
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7th Africa Water Week
IWMI29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)29.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
AfricaRice26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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Ramsar Convention COP13
IWMI25.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.…
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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)24.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)23.10.18-
Environmental health
Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)23.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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Policy seminar: Past, present, and future of the commons
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.10.18-
Environmental health
There is a long history of common property, which we can define as resources held…
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Giving water a second life
IWMI17.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)15.10.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
On this occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias…
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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry15.10.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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