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International Potato Center (CIP)

21.04.20

Big data

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…

As COVID-19 threatens global food security, fresh potato is back on the tables of millions

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

COVID-19 is driving demand for fresh potato in supermarkets and grocery stores across the globe…

Blast and rust forecast

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Big data
Food security

An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…

Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Biodiversity

Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…

FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption

Biodiversity
Food security

In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…

ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Health

We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…

How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands

Biodiversity
Environmental health

As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…

IWMI and Covid-19

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Health

The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…

ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers

19.04.20

Health

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…

Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth

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

18.04.20

Food security
Health

The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…

Transforming food systems for women’s empowerment and equity

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

Food security
Gender equality

BY LAURA ZSELECZKY, HAZEL MALAPIT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND AGNES QUISUMBING Shutdowns to control th…

Satellite maps can help nations make critical food production decisions amid coronavirus

Food security

Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red…

Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Health

Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…

An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration

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

Biodiversity
Environmental health

Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…

Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Food security

This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…

COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear