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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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World Environment Day 2020 : Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive and resilient future
05.06.20-
Biodiversity
5 June 2020 : ‘Biodiversity’ involves 8 million plant and animal species, the ecosystems…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Balanced agro-ecosystems strengthen food security
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Preserving biodiversity, and the potential it stores, soils, landscapes, and diets, is one of the m…
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Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Environmental degradation and climate change are major concerns for all countries in the world. The…
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GreenPass puts germplasm distribution in the fast lane
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
The crop diversity in CGIAR’s international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That’s mu…
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Monitoring safeguards at the community-level: are we delivering good or bad change?
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Imagine this scenario: an indigenous people’s organization (IPO) in the Philippines withdrawing it…
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Science and tradition: how indigenous communities manage forests
30.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Imagine a sustainable community-based forest management system — payment for ecosystem services  
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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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10 ways to enhance Andean agrobiodiversity during COVID-19 and climate change
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
At the International Potato Center (CIP), World Biodiversity Day has special meaning for our work,…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
12.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
08.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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Registration systems for farmers’ varieties: Ongoing policy dialogues and experiences from the field
06.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Why haven’t farmers’ varieties yet found a place in national and global seed markets? And…
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Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy
05.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Small-scale farming is the main food security contributor in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, owing to c…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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