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Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic, says ILRI/UN report
08.07.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives and disrupt economies across the world, a…
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IITA releases 10-year strategy for managing invasive species in Africa
04.07.20Prevention, early detection and control make up the three-pronged approach that Africa is taking on…
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West Africa | 40 000 producers will benefit from a new European plant breeding project
02.07.20Photo: Groundnut producers from the Fatick region (Senegal) visiting demonstration plots of new vari…
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New brief details drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnam
01.07.20-
Nutrition
This Stories of Change in Nutrition study aims to understand the history, contemporary treatment and…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
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
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This story was originally published by CIRAD: https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2…
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Domestic livestock not a source of the COVID-19 disease—ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Eric Fevre
15.04.20-
Nutrition
A cattle keeper in Laos gives her cow salt (photo credit: ILRI Stevie Mann). ‘People…
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Viewing food system transformation through the country lens
14.04.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post also appears on A4NH’s Food System Idea Exchange, a new blog series…
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Averting an agricultural crisis: Setting Food And Nutrition Systems right during Covid-19 times
14.04.20-
Nutrition
by Nafees Meah, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Basanta Kumar Kar (Recipient of Global Nutrition Le…
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Colombian Farmers Donate Zinc Rice to Coronavirus-Stricken Cartagena
09.04.20-
Nutrition
"One by one we are all mortal. Together, we are eternal." These words of solidarity,…
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition
03.04.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project This compilation of real-life ‘impact…
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IRRI committed to working with partners, governments to ensure continued food and nutrition security amid COVID-19 outbreak
03.04.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across almost 200 countries and territories around the world…
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Building synergies between modernized sweetpotato breeding and seed systems for improved varieties in East and Central Africa
02.04.20-
Nutrition
SweetGAINS (Genetic Advances and Innovative Seed Systems) is a program to accelerate and expand the…
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COVID19 Highlights Need To Ensure Good Nutrition
31.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This well-known quote from Hippocrates…
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Nutrix – the big reach of small fish in nourishing Cambodia
31.03.20-
Nutrition
Lyndon Paul offers a tube-shaped wafer for me to try. It fractures as I bite,…
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Lessons from the AIDS epidemic on how COVID-19 may Impact Food and Nutrition Security
30.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
By Stuart Gillespie and Alan Whiteside Given the speed at which COVID-19 is spreading, we must…
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Understanding farmer needs for new sweetpotato varieties
30.03.20-
Nutrition
Jeanne Mukasine hails from Gakenke district in the northern reaches of Rwanda, the country of…
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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Policy seminar: The changing challenges of hidden hunger
11.03.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Global efforts to improve nutrition require approaches that focus on the entire food system, leading…
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Study shows high-iron beans improve women’s physical performance
10.03.20-
Nutrition
Iron-biofortified beans improved iron status and physical performance of iron-deficient Rwandan wome…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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