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How taking a systems approach to water will help to meet our future food needs
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)15.10.20-
Nutrition
On World Food Day, Dr. Mark Smith, Director General of the International Water Management Institute…
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Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities c…
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HarvestPlus Webinar Focused on Path for Scaling Up Biofortification Amid COVID-19
HarvestPlus13.10.20-
Food security
HarvestPlus hosted a webinar on “Improving Nutrition Security with Biofortified Crops: Lessons Fro…
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Effective research during COVID-19 and other food system shocks: Here’s 10 tips
WorldFish12.10.20-
Big data
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the market, trade and supply chains limiting food accessibility…
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Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)06.10.20-
Food security
Findings from a recent study (Aug 2020) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia suggest that telephone surveys…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)02.10.20-
Health
The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria
HarvestPlus30.09.20-
Food security
As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)29.09.20-
Health
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.09.20-
Nutrition
The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming busine…
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Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
WorldFish25.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems…
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COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.09.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL AND DEREK HEADEY As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and persist, disrupting…
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The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)03.09.20-
Health
A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Sla…
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Initial Research Highlights Importance of Irrigation for Ethiopian Farmers During COVID-19
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)02.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Agriculture sustains the Ethiopian economy, and access to irrigation here is critical for food secur…
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Policy seminar: Unpacking the impacts of COVID-19 on economies, food systems, and poverty in African and Asian countries
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)26.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA Countries around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implemen…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
WorldFish20.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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Policy seminar: How food businesses are coping with COVID-19
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Swati Malhotra The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the world’s economy, food syste…
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New directions for agricultural value chain finance in Viet Nam
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.08.20-
Food security
By Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw , and Sylvan Herskowitz There is a global need…
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