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Food security
Nutrition

Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume…

Dried fish in a COVID-19 world

WorldFish

Food security
Nutrition

The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…

Youth in fisheries, aquaculture and value chains: A study and foundation for building back better

WorldFish

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

As impacts of the global pandemic COVID-19 continue to spread, young people face particular challeng…

What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Climate adaptation & mitigation

We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…

This little seed went to market

International Potato Center (CIP)

Food security
Nutrition

It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…

Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…

The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Health

Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…

Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Biodiversity
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…

The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI

16.05.20

Health

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…

Women winnowing wheat in a Punjab village. Photo: AV Jakhar

Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security
Health

As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India�…

A technician inspecting a sorghum/pigeonpea intercrop trial in Salima district, Malawi. Photo: L Lazarus, ICRISAT

A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…

COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Health

BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…

Fixing the global food system after coronavirus

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Food security
Gender equality

BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…

Introducing West Africa’s largest insect collection

International Potato Center (CIP)

How do you catch all these insects? How do you know they are here? Do…

Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond