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International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Health

Jo Lines, Reader of Malaria Control and Vector Biology at the London School of Hygiene…

IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs

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

Food security
Nutrition

BY DAVID ARONSON While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and…

Training on digital seed roadmap use enables delivery of quality seeds to smallholder farmers

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Big data

Timely access to quality seeds by smallholder farmers is a major enabler for agriculture in…

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on farm animal diversity for more sustainable and resilient global food systems

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

Biodiversity
Environmental health

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this week ma…

Empowering women farmers through Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) in Northern Ghana

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Gender equality

A study in Northern Ghana revealed that lack of access to finance often hinders productivity…

Land restoration in Africa builds momentum

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes…

IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar works together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity

24.09.18

Food security
Nutrition

IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …

The future of land restoration is community-led, says WLE/ICRISAT at Tropentag

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

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Environmental health

Advancing the agenda of land restoration in Africa’s Sahel region, let alone globally, is no…

IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Environmental health
Food security

IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…

Mobile phone app launched to strengthen new insurance scheme for India’s farmers

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Environmental health
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The scheme aims to provide more than half of Indian farmers with crop insurance within…

What’s in it for gender researchers when it comes to UN Women’s gender and SDGs report?

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Environmental health
Gender equality

UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…

Webinar: Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Lessons learned from South-South knowledge exchange

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

In this webinar on October 4, we will summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from…

Designing for gender inclusivity in video-enabled agricultural extension

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Gender equality

It was busier than usual in the village of Nabitula—25 km north of Namatumba in…

IWMI scientist awarded for contributions to water policy in South Asia

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has named Tushaar Shah, a senior fellow with …

‘High-yield’ farming costs the environment less than previously thought—and could help spare habitats