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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Food security

An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…

During the pandemic, nutritious food is an urgent requirement for the teeming millions. Photo: FCI

Produce more coarse grains to meet pandemic nutrition challenge

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Food security
Health

India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the…

Policy Brief: Creating Sustainable Value Chains For Transforming Food Systems

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Food security

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting food value chains across South Asia. It is now…

Sudan and Ethiopia boost wheat production through the TAAT project

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

The ICARDA-coordinated Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) project, funded b…

Global Food Policy Report 2020 launch: Building inclusive food systems

15.04.20

Food security
Gender equality

BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The April 7 launch of IFPRI’s flagship 2020 Global Food Policy Report—this y…

ILRI computing capacity made available to COVID-19 vaccine developers

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

15.04.20

Health

While the International Livestock Research Institute campuses in Nairobi and Addis Ababa are unchara…

Domestic livestock not a source of the COVID-19 disease—ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Eric Fevre

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

15.04.20

Nutrition

A cattle keeper in Laos gives her cow salt (photo credit: ILRI Stevie Mann). ‘People…

For the poorest countries, the full danger from coronavirus is only just coming into view

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Gender equality
Health

BY MARI PANGESTU Three months after the outbreak began, it is easy to see the…

Viewing food system transformation through the country lens

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Food security
Nutrition

BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post also appears on A4NH’s Food System Idea Exchange, a new blog series…

FEATURE: Organizing farmers into tree-based enterprises

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Biodiversity

The Philippine Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) is a hu…

Containing COVID19 impacts on Indian Agriculture

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Health

The ongoing health crisis around COVID19 has affected all walks of life. Protecting lives of…

Kenya's wildlife-rich rangelands with cattle and wildlife

Disease outbreaks linked to degraded ecosystems: A problem ALL of us are driving and ALL of us need to solve

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Biodiversity
Health

Kenya’s wildlife-rich rangelands with cattle and wildlife (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). ‘W…

Averting an agricultural crisis: Setting Food And Nutrition Systems right during Covid-19 times

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Nutrition

by Nafees Meah, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Basanta Kumar Kar (Recipient of Global Nutrition Le…

Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…

Diets in a time of coronavirus: Don’t let vegetables fall off the plate

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Gender equality

BY JODY HARRIS Vegetables are a key source of essential nutrition and play a crucial…

Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on vegetable value chains in Ethiopia

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Food security
Health

BY SENESHAW TAMRU, KALLE HIRVONEN AND BART MINTEN Measures to contain COVID-19 are expected to hav…

Food-based dietary guidelines and a healthy eating index for Ethiopia: Methodology for development and evaluation

CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)

Food security

A new paper details the study protocol for creating Ethiopia's first food-based dietary guidelines a…

Broken supply chains: COVID-19 lockdown is having a devastating effect on livelihoods in rural India