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CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Environmental health
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Gender equality
Health
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

In Zambia, rural women play a vital role in aquaculture and related value chains, but…

Opinion: Getting the most out of every last drop of water

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Environmental health
Food security

Water is often held up as a precious, life-giving element for its essential role in…

Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Dr. Michael Baum, ICARDA’s Acting Deputy Director General for Research, Research Team Leader of Br…

Changing rainfall erodes a landscape. Watershed interventions halt the downward spiral

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Watershed interventions have led to 1-2.5 meters higher groundwater levels, providing lifesaving irr…

Winning, ‘climate-smart’, ways to feed India’s dairy cows—Jimmy Smith, of ILRI

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Food security

(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in Sou…

2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies

CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB)

Food security
Nutrition

BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…

African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Big data
Food security

With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…

Never let good waste become a crisis: lessons for the Global South

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Environmental health
Food security

As a global society, we waste a third – 1.3 billion metric tons – of…

New report from UN Nutrition untangles risks and benefits of food from livestock for sustainable healthy diets, focusing on challenges linked to both abundance and scarcity

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Health
Nutrition

A more balanced, sustainable approach to consuming food from livestock—one that meets nutrition ne…

ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), today gave …

Remote sensing for irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and pitfalls

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Environmental health
Food security

There is growing demand for sustainable development policy that is data driven, but our unprecedente…

Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Food security

BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…

The Yams of Konguan

Biodiversity

Once upon a time two women, one very beautiful and one not so beautiful, were…

World Food Prize Laureate Shakuntala Thilsted urges UN Assembly to act on aquatic foods

Big data
Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Health
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who was recently …

In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman

Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Health
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in…

Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
Food security
Gender equality
Health
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Since achieving its independence 20 years ago, Timor-Leste has set out to forge a cohesive…

Equitible digital tools can boost small-scale fisher livelihoods

Big data
Gender equality
Nutrition
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

While some specific applications of mobile technologies are well understood, their role in governanc…

Nutrition scientist Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted awarded the 2021 World Food Prize