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CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

13.06.19

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Indonesia - Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But…

Act now to feed 10 billion, global experts tell WLE Commission at EAT Forum

13.06.19

Environmental health

Can the world produce 10 billion healthy diets while transitioning agriculture from a source of…

The recipe for better food systems

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Nutrition

How food is produced, consumed, and how much is lost or wasted shapes the health…

Where — and why — is agroforestry hiding?

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Biodiversity
Climate adaptation & mitigation

Agroforestry, a land-management system that couples the growth of trees and shrubs with crops and…

Food security depends on water security – and we need to act now

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security

The world is running out of clean, fresh water to feed—and nourish—a growing global population,…

Africa’s Animal Genetic Resources – The Wealth Within

Biodiversity

Today, more than a hundred key partners in African livestock development, including African minister…

acacia tree, yangambi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, restoration

DRC landscape restoration is electrifying!

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Democratic Republic of the Congo - For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic…

Increasing soil carbon improves food security and income in Western Kenya

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

In most countries of sub-Saharan Africa, a greater segment of rural communities derive their livelih…

Top shelf: Who has access to the healthiest processed foods?

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Health
Nutrition

In 2013, Mexico had the fourth highest sales of ultra-processed products worldwide. This is indicati…

Advocating for livestock, say its supporters, requires stronger narratives as well as robust evidence

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Mary Nzomo, the chair of Kenya’s Agriculture County Executive Committee Members Caucus, holding th…

New Index outlines agrobiodiversity’s role in food system sustainability

Biodiversity
Nutrition

The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool to calculate how well countries are conserving a…

Seed Sorting: From Harvest to Genebank

CGIAR Genebank Platform

Biodiversity

An automatic seed sorter is now making the task of sorting seeds more efficient at…

Ghetto chimps, 4 billion trees for Ethiopia, while Amazon deforestation accelerates…fast!

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

10.06.19

Biodiversity
Nutrition

In Forests News last week: Can forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa? Agriculture…

Recharging Nepal’s mountain springs

10.06.19

Climate adaptation & mitigation

A novel approach for determining where and how to intervene. In mountainous areas of Nepal,…

And in the end, where are we starting to go?