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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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Reconciling food security, resource depletion and environmental quality trade-offs in India
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)28.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), delved into linkages…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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The world needs a global system to detect and halt the spread of emerging crop diseases
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)28.06.19In the same manner that nations collaborate to detect and stop human pandemics, a global…
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Conference: Challenges of eliminating child labor in agriculture and food chains
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.06.19-
Gender equality
Around the world, more than 70% of child labor is found in the agriculture sector—an…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Fifty technologies in five years – Feed the Future, MISST project shares outcomes in Malawi
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Food security
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Health
Over 245,000 households reached 14,500 MT of seed produced, over 50 technologies developed – these…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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Policy Seminar: Faster than you think – renewable energy and developing countries
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.06.19-
Environmental health
Ten years ago, predictions for the adoption of renewable energy around the world made it…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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Don't miss the BIMSTEC bus: Regional integration with South Asia-Southeast Asia bloc brings advantages for India
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the VIPs at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in for a second term May…
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Agrobiodiversity essential to sustainable food systems for the future
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)25.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A new book from MIT Press proposes and develops an expanded concept of agrobiodiversity, which,…
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CIP Trustee elected head of UN agriculture agency
International Potato Center (CIP)24.06.19The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced on 23 June 2019…
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CIMMYT global partnership fights mutating wheat rust
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)24.06.19-
Food security
Stem rust, which occurs mainly in warm and humid conditions, is a serious biotic threat…
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Mozambique farmers enjoy greater yields as a result of IITA’s research
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)24.06.19IITA’s research in Mozambique has made much impact in rural and national development by ensuring…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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The role of phages: A fight against antibiotic resistance in poultry farms in Kenya
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)24.06.19-
Food security
Illustration of a bacteriophage (image credit: Flickr/Kevin Gill) In the early 1920s, William Twort …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)22.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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