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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
16.10.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Disaster Reduction
13.10.19-
Climate
We have to accept that in many cases we cannot stop floods or droughts, but…
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A fresh look at the genes behind grain weight in spring bread wheat
09.10.19-
Genomics
To meet the demand for wheat from a rising and quickly urbanizing population, wheat yields…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biol…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
22.05.19-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Genomics
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health
22.05.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
In his first blog, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of Bioversity International, recognizes the…
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Behind the scenes of new BBC series “Dynasties”
21.05.19-
Biodiversity
Every living thing on this planet has a family, but some species will fight to…
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David Ellis: Finding the balance between manager and scientist
17.05.19-
Biodiversity
Dave Ellis, who recently retired as leader of the International Potato Center genebank in Lima,…
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IPBES recognizes why agrobiodiversity matters
13.05.19-
Biodiversity
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report,…
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Extinction crisis on its way, according to new global report
10.05.19-
Biodiversity
A major new report is warning that human activity could lead to the extinction of…
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Ask the researchers: The Retail Diversity for Dietary Diversity project
03.05.19-
Biodiversity
A4NH researchers at Bioversity International and Wageningen University & Research, along with pa…
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Ask the researchers: Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project
26.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Researchers with Bioversity International recently shared information on the Biodiversity for Food a…
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Reasons for low uptake of climate change technologies
25.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Factors such as lack of funding for scale-up are impeding uptake of climate change technologies.…
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CGIAR Science Council urges focus on urbanization in Agriculture & Food Systems 2050 Report
24.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently launched 'Agriculture & F…
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EARTH DAY: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist?
22.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Palembang, Indonesia – Present day South Sumatra looks a lot different from its heyday as…
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Five ways food systems can make or break our Earth
22.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
From the year 2013 to 2016, Lao banana exports increased to $200 million, a tripling in…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
15.04.19-
Biodiversity
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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
This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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A Homecoming for Rice
12.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
11.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to e…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
09.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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