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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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Cash transfers and intimate partner violence
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)03.04.19-
Gender equality
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally, with one in three…
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CIP revises its strategy and corporate plan to deliver impact at scale
International Potato Center (CIP)02.04.19Rising demand for food in low- and middle-income countries is opening up new opportunities for…
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App enables smallholder farmers to be community influencers and citizen scientists
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)02.04.19The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information …
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)02.04.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
AfricaRice02.04.19-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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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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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute hunger in 2018
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)02.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world’s humanitarian assistance and spending needs have more than doubled over the past decade…
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Assigning value to nature’s bounty
IWMI02.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Toward more inclusive water management in Kenya’s Tana River Basin.…
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Agreement on multi-country seed-sharing reached
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)02.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed…
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)02.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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World Bank Land and Poverty Conference: Stand For Her Land
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)02.04.19At this week’s 20th Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference in Washington DC, a…
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Putting seasonal forecasts in the hands of Rwandan farmers
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)02.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
“We started planting our crops in the first week of February!” exclaimed a farmers cooperative…
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Seeds of Change Conference
WorldFish02.04.19An interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners in all fields of agriculture inclu…
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Exploring creative new approaches to combat food loss and waste
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)01.04.19-
Food security
Food loss and waste is a huge global problem found everywhere along the chain from…
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More bang for the climate buck: study identifies hotspots for adaptation funding
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)01.04.19By combining the latest crop models and local expertise in Vietnam, Uganda and Nicaragua, scientists…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)01.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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Jinping soy price threatens Amazon, Trump, and methane releasing trees
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)01.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: Between the land of the free…
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)01.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Gendered time and energy expenditure in rural livelihoods: Different sides of the same coin?
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)01.04.19-
Gender equality
Understanding how women and men allocate their time and energy is important for creating gender-sens…
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