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UNCCD COP16: Critical moment for the land degradation neutrality
27.11.24UNCCD COP16: Critical moment for the land degradation neutrality The United Nations Convention …
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COP29 Key Take Aways, Negotiations, Side Events and Coverage
26.11.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As the curtains close on COP29 in Baku, we reflect on two weeks of intense…
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CGIAR and IAEA partner to tackle global food security and climate challenges
22.11.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Baku, Azerbaijan— CGIAR and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have formalized a landma…
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22 NL-CGIAR Senior Experts receive funding to improve global food security
06.11.24The NL-CGIAR Senior Expert Programme II (SEPII) offers senior researchers from Dutch institutions a …
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CGIAR at COP16: Advancing Global Commitments for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability
31.10.24The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity…
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Multi-Donor Fund Unlocks Financing for Africa's Small and Medium-Sized Agricultural Enterprises
28.10.24On October 24, 2024, Norway and the United States, through the Agency for International Development…
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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New CIMMYT pre-commercial hybrids available from Asia maize breeding programs
05.08.19-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved…
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Benefits from trees regreen land and livelihoods
05.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Smallholders in Ethiopia are set to benefit from development of tree value-chains. Wood-fuel, round …
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Rice Doctor -An innovative technological approach to enhance rice production
05.08.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Crop losses due to insect pests and diseases are a major threat to farming communities…
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Protect our food. Fund the seed.
02.08.19-
Food security
“It is the seed that controls the system, not the other way around.” Chef and…
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Transforming sorghum and millet cropping systems through diffusion of quality seed and best bet agronomic practices
02.08.19Eight months of the year was the most farmer Seydou Yolo’s harvest would last to…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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Global Food Policy Report–EAT-Lancet Commission launch in The Hague: Rural revitalization and sustainable diets
01.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
How do two major reports with different emphases on the relationship between nutrition and agricultu…
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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020
01.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestoc…
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Transform Nutrition West Africa publishes evidence brief on Nigeria's nutrition policy
01.08.19-
Nutrition
To help policymakers in Nigeria better understand the direction of nutrition-relevant policies and t…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
31.07.19-
Gender equality
How can social protection programs be truly inclusive? Taking a social inclusion lens to agricultura…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
31.07.19-
Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiency affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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FEATURE: Why financing is tied to the future of a biodiverse planet
31.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
We will end the year 2019 without having completely achieved any of the Aichi Biodiversity…
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Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
31.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: I…
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IRRI, Tao Corporation sign pact for the commercialization and distribution of elite hybrid rice varieties across the Philippines
31.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Partnership seen to give local rice farmers better access to seeds of high-yielding and climate-resi…
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Researchers support district experts and farmers in Climate Risk Profiling
30.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agriculture sector in Uganda is largely rain fed; this includes Nwoya District located within…
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