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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
20.01.20The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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CRP-GLDC team and the partners visit the Plant Transformation Laboratory (PTL) at Kenyatta University, in Nairobi
18.12.19The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) held its annual ‘Scienc…
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Webinar: Youth realities, aspirations and transitions to adulthood in dryland agricultural systems
17.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is hosting the webinar ‘Youth realities, aspi…
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Prevention is better than cure
16.12.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2020 Call for Proposals
16.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ca…
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Non-party actions will hold the key as negotiations fail to deliver ambitious action
16.12.19-
Climate
The 25th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP25) con…
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What must be done to get toxin out of Kenya’s food supply
15.12.19-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In this article republished from The Conversation, Vivian Hoffmann shares insights on risks associat…
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Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change?
13.12.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fourth in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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Call for abstracts now open: ANH Academy Week 2020
13.12.19-
Nutrition
The 2020 Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week will be held in Malawi from 29…
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Key technology for biofortification goes online
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Big data
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Biodiversity
Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
13.12.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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Ethiopia has a Nobel Prize and a roaring economy. Can it also gain a food secure future?
13.12.19Published as an Op-Ed on CNBC Ethiopia is now Africa’s fastest-growing economy, and this week,…
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Off the press: Governance of natural resources
12.12.19Select 2019 journal articles from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets …
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Program launch: IFPRI, Rwanda government partner on policy analysis, capacity strengthening for rural transformation
12.12.19Building on its remarkable social and economic progress over the past two decades, Rwanda is…
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
12.12.19Millions of smallholder farmers are struggling under immediate climate change impacts and need respi…
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Latin America & Caribbean strengthen their cooperation for climate action
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Climate
The agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable to the effects…
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
11.12.19-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
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What is wheat blast?
11.12.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
There are no widely available resistant varieties, and fungicides are expensive and provide only a…
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Global symposium brings scientists and policymakers together for a “new vision” of sustainable fisheries
11.12.19Fish harvested from naturally occurring stocks in ocean, coastal and inland waters are crucia…
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