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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Seeing really is believing: Farmers’ photos revolutionize insurance and advisory services
29.01.19-
Big data
As climate change-driven droughts, storms, and floods continue to challenge smallholder farmers, the…
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Now, get critical seed data in one click
18.01.19-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
A modern digital seed ‘catalog’ and seed ‘roadmap’ tool is now available for information abo…
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Reducing high yield gaps with decision-support apps
15.01.19-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopia is Africa’s third largest producer of maize, after Nigeria and South Africa. Although the…
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Byte by byte: How improved data management is enhancing innovation and impact
14.01.19-
Big data
WorldFish has been a leader in aquaculture and fisheries development for decades, producing valuable…
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Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool
20.12.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will…
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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New Soil Intelligence System for India provides high-quality data using modern analytics
04.12.18-
Big data
The new Soil Intelligence System (SIS) for India will help the states of Andhra Pradesh,…
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Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning platform wins silver award in Berlin
03.12.18-
Big data
The Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning online platform (MEL), used by eight CGIAR Research Progra…
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More than 100,000 installations of BiodiversityR: growing a better understanding of biodiversity
30.11.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Based on daily package downloads made available for the RStudio mirror server since 1 October…
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Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
29.11.18-
Big data
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, however,…
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Decoding food security at the 2018 Big Data in Agriculture Convention
24.11.18-
Big data
In order for the tools of big data to be put to use for food…
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Pest distribution and risk atlas for Africa includes potato and sweetpotato pests
13.11.18-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Insect pests cause major yield losses in agricultural crops. Climate change is expected to exacerbat…
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Opinion: Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
12.11.18-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, howe…
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Digital disruption in agriculture
07.11.18-
Big data
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Agriculture in India contributes to about 17% of GDP but employs nearly 55% of the…
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies
02.11.18-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A group of leading international organizations joined with IFPRI and PIM in 2013 to form the…
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Big data proposal wins 2018 Inspire Challenge
15.10.18-
Big data
WorldFish is a winner of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture’s 2018 Inspire…
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Kenya’s ICT Cabinet Secretary: Data is ‘key’ to smart farming
12.10.18-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Addressing hundreds of participants at the 2018 Global CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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