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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Biodiversity

Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…

Scaling up research for development in CGIAR

International Potato Center (CIP)

Food security

In a bid to scale impact of its research outputs, ILRI has recently undertaken a…

10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change

The post 10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change appeared firs…

Delivering Nourishing Sweet Potatoes to Panama’s Markets Amid COVID-19 Crisis

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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Nutrition

Ariquimedes Peralta is a grower of biofortified vitamin A orange sweet potato (OSP) living in…

Survey suggests rising risk of food and nutrition insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 restrictions continue

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

Food security
Nutrition

BY KALLE HIRVONEN, GASHAW TADESSE ABATE AND ALAN DE BRAUW Countries have taken varied actions to l…

Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation

Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…

Mpeda to produce GIFT seeds in Kerala

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

KOCHI: Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Aquaculture (RGCA), the research arm of Marine Products Exports Devel…

Cambodia and IRRI sign 4-Year Collaborative Work Plan to modernize and accelerate rice sector

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

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Phnom Penh, 20 May 2020 - The Royal Government of Cambodia, through the Ministry of…

Most of the food in Vietnam is bought from informal traders. Photo by C. De Bode/CGIAR

COVID-19 and global trade implications for food systems and healthy diets

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

The authors consider rippling impacts of COVID-19 on trade as food system actors experience loss…

IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems

20.05.20

Food security
Health

BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…

The challenge of charcoal

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

20.05.20

EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part two in a series of three stories that…

Market place in Kenya (World Bank/Sambrian Mbaabu)

What can COVID-19 teach us about responding to climate change?

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

20.05.20

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have been taking a range of different measures,…

Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020

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

Biodiversity
Food security

Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…

How small fishers in Kerala’s Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system

Food security

Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19…

Covid-19: Hitting rural farming

Food security
Nutrition

The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as…

Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India

Food security
Nutrition

The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…

Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Nigeria