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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
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World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Good Nutrition is Crucial for the Coronavirus Vaccine to Work Effectively
26.11.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Vaccines are harder to deliver and potentially less effective at stimulating an immune response in…
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New Study: CGIAR Innovations Reach Nearly 80 Percent of Ethiopia’s Rural Households
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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“Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
15.12.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
On December 11, 2020, the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the release of six…
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Shining a brighter light on adoption and diffusion
15.12.20-
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With almost all CGIAR centers represented in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is considered to be a…
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Undervalued and underutilized – cocoyam is ripe for development
15.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is…
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Novel and effective technique to control Banana Xanthomonas wilt is suitable for Rwandan agroecology
15.12.20Banana is a major commodity in Rwanda, used as both a cash and (staple) food…
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Agriculture for Peace: A call to action to avert a global food crisis
14.12.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
50 years ago, the late Norman Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for averting…
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Best of 2020: Editors’ picks
14.12.20COVID-19 didn’t slow us down! In 2020, our editors continued to cover exciting news and…
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New book on value chain development seeks to translate ideas into practice – for impact at scale
12.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Interview with the editors of the new book “Value Chain Development and The Poor: Promise, delive…
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Press Release: “Historic” release of six improved wheat varieties in Nepal
11.12.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Kathmandu (Nepal) December 11, 2020 The Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the rel…
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Policy seminar: Information and collaboration both key to preventing food crises
11.12.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SARA GUSTAFSON From the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent conflict to desert locust outbreaks, popu…
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Sorghum and millet grow money for the Mariko family
11.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Use of improved seed triples yields, credit through warrantage system leads to big gains. Access…
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What Africa can learn from Asia about agricultural mechanization
10.12.20The new book includes thirteen case studies from Asia and Africa documenting the differences in…
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The Market Services That Ethiopian Livestock Farmers are Willing to Pay for
10.12.20A recently published ICARDA study investigating rural farmers' willingness to pay for carefully iden…
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Is it crunch time for the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus? 3 recommendations to move the needle
10.12.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The concept of the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus has gained widespread traction in the last decade…
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“Happy Seeder” saves farmers money over burning straw, new study in India shows
10.12.20-
Climate
Compared to conventional tillage practices, sowing wheat directly into just-harvested rice fields wi…
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“Let there be food to eat”
09.12.20-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“We want to feed the people, we don’t want them to go hungry. We have…
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How to support students and the learning process during India’s COVID-19 school closures
09.12.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The long-term social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unknown, but many worry…
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Best of 2020: Our favorite videos
08.12.20The Multimedia team at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and our produce…
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Digital groundwater monitoring
08.12.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Taken together, digital monitoring and readily available data on the status of groundwater resources…
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