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CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

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Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…

ACIAR Australia video highlights successful investments in global wheat research

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), a longtime partner of the C…

Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Food security
Nutrition

BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…

From the field: climate-smart agriculture in Zimbabwe

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Biodiversity

Watch the video and read more about the Alliance’s ongoing work to increase farmers’ resilience…

Working to make gender research actionable in Honduras

Environmental health

Given the challenge of making gender approaches and concepts actionable, especially the concept of w…

Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems

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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…

Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition

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CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health
Food security
Gender equality
Health
Nutrition
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Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…

Benin joins PABRA to introduce sustainable bean research for development in West Africa

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Did you know that almost 80 percent of Benin’s 11.2 million people earn a living…

New common bean varieties to benefit African women and children

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Good progress has been made in the first 12 months of an innovative project linking…

Gender and Nutrition considerations in Demand Led Breeding: Experiences from Rwanda

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Participatory plant breeding is not new in Rwanda. Its history can be traced between 1988…

How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Chickpea farmers have adopted new varieties to achieve commercialisation, say scientists The use of …

Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar

International Potato Center (CIP)

Food security

BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…

Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19

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

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The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…

Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Environmental health
Food security

At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…

Taking sheep for disease testing in Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Barbara Wieland)

Putting One Health into practice: A call to action for animal health