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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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New research hub to coordinate CGIAR’s COVID-19 response
25.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A CGIAR COVID-19 Hub has been established to consolidate existing scientific evidence and help suppo…
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How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas
22.06.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
By Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa Policy makers and researchers tracking the impacts of COVID-19…
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Turning many into one: CGIAR network restructures
22.06.20International agricultural science is facing a new era. The research network CGIAR decided on a…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
18.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020 and the disease has…
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Agroecology and Natural Farming Could Accelerate Inclusive Economic Growth in India
08.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
International experts in a convention organized on 29 May by NITI Aayog endorsed efforts to…
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Ensia: COVID-19 is telling us that it’s time for global systems change – starting with water
08.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized…
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IFPRI: Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
08.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, w…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
08.06.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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How dryland crops are helping Telangana’s tribal households meet nutritional requirements during lockdown
08.06.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
To ensure nutrition sufficiency in children, pregnant women and lactating mothers of tribal communit…
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Measuring farm households’ vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks now possible, new research shows
08.06.20A farmer on his parched land in India. Photo: L Vidyasagar, ICRISAT (via ICRISAT Happenings) A…
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How dryland crops are helping Telangana’s tribal households meet nutritional requirements during lockdown
08.06.20An Anganwadi teacher providing Giri Poshana food to beneficiaries at their homes in Sarvai Village,…
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New partnership inked with AGRA to boost improved technology uptake in Africa’s agriculture
08.06.20Farmers in a sorghum field in Sikasso, Mali. Photo: A Diama, ICRISAT ICRISAT-led AVISA project…
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Post-Covid agri reforms: Odisha could be frontrunner
08.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Representational image for Indian agriculture (related op-ed) | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloo…
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De-risking livelihoods in climate and conflict hotspots: The need to align humanitarian and development objectives and finance
08.06.20-
Climate
Climate and conflict are major threats to livelihoods and food security in the Global South.…
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Twitter Moment: ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum
06.06.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
“ILRI-UNEP explore ‘One Health’ at the Global Landscapes Forum” Click open this link: https:…
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Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
06.06.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing…
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New partnership inked with AGRA to boost improved technology uptake in Africa’s agriculture
05.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
ICRISAT-led AVISA project is partnering with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)…
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Measuring farm households’ vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks now possible, new research shows
05.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Measurement can improve interventions and help smallholder farmers adapt better A household’s vuln…
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Earth’s land use crisis is also a global health crisis: We must include, integrate, incentivize
05.06.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Falling in the midst of global crises, this month's World Environment Day brings home the…
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Beyond Words: Participatory research method helps share the lived experience of small-scale fishers in the Solomon Islands
05.06.20In the Pacific, most data collected is quantitative and thus unable to answer questions that…
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Celebrating World Food Safety Day 2020: Food safety, everyone’s business
05.06.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To mark the second World Food Safety Day that will be celebrated on 7 June…
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World Food Safety Day 2020: COVID-19 offers an opportunity for India’s food systems to deliver on safety and health
05.06.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY DEVESH ROY The second annual World Food Safety Day (June 7)—with the theme “food safety, ev…
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