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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

In Malawi—the warm heart of Africa—a constantly changing climate poses a threat to the food,…

Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY JULIE KURTZ The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while…

Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria

HarvestPlus

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

Food security

As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…

A decade of CCAFS: Two big lessons for the future of climate-smart food systems

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

Our food systems are failing us—the wealth of literature that's now available tells us this…

Fruit and vegetables on sale alongside other food items in a local market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Geraldine Klarenberg).

Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…

New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security

BY ALAN DE BRAUW AND SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ How do different types of expenditures relate to households'…

Boran women with sheep and goats at a traditional deep well water source, Garba Tulla, Isiolo, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flintan).

Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Health

A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…

Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Food security

Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…

COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts

International Potato Center (CIP)

Nutrition

The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming busine…

Red hot potato market could spell trouble for farmers in India

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Potato prices in India started rising in December 2019 due to the delay in harvesting…

IFPRI mentorship journeys: Providing advice and research support for Malawi agriculture students

Food security
Gender equality

BY SANDRA FRÖBE-KALTENBACH AND CYNTHIA KAZEMBE First in a two-part series on IFPRI Malawi’s Bund…

Gender equality in food systems: the ‘new normal’

CGIAR GENDER Platform

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

Gender equality

CGIAR’s new platform designed to put gender equality at the forefront of global agricultural resea…

Phillip Miriti (in black) during a field interview in Ethiopia.

Building gender and youth research capacities for agriculture and development

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

Photo: Phillip Miriti (in black) during a field interview in Ethiopia (ICRISAT) Aspiring researchers…

Women farmers during a grafting demonstration in Niger. Photo: B Traore, ICRISAT

Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives

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

Photo: Women farmers during a grafting demonstration in Niger. (B Traore, ICRISAT) A group of…

Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs

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

To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISA…

Farmers visiting ICARDA platform FLRP, Amlaha, Grasspea plot under scaling.

Food from fallows: Capitalizing on idle land for better food security in South Asia