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IITA identifies opportunities to make a difference amidst COVID-19 spread across Africa
28.03.20As COVID-19 or coronavirus gets closer to home—Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agr…
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COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
27.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some…
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Farmers in Eastern Kenya reap big profits from improved varieties of drought-tolerant crops
27.03.20-
Climate smart
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Food security
Farmers in Eastern Kenya are seeing an increase in yield from their crops and earning…
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Barren shelves: COVID-19 and panic buying of food │ Analysis by Michael Hauser
24.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
People rush to supermarkets and buy what they can carry. Comprehensible, but unnecessary. To cut…
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Papua mangroves could help Indonesia coast to climate targets
23.03.20-
Climate change
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Paris Agreement
Indonesia - The characteristics of mangroves in a range of ecosystems – from undisturbed natural…
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How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19?
20.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a recent blog post, we analyzed how the spread of the disease associated with the…
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Open data to boost Groundnut breeding initiatives: a testimony by Dr. Janila Pasupuleti
07.03.20Groundnut is among the key grain legumes playing a vital role in enhancing human nutrition…
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IITA-BIP sets record for maize production per hectare in Nigeria
07.03.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new production record for maize in Nige…
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How wasps are used to control the destructive cowpea pest—Maruca vitrata
07.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Maruca vitrata, also known as Maruca pod borer, is one of the most devastating insect…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Celebrating the ‘WILD’ (‘Women In Livestock Development’) at ILRI on International Women’s Day—Video
06.03.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Check out this video short highlighting women working at the International Livestock Research Instit…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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Partnering to scale big data from small-scale fisheries
06.03.20Our communications team sat down with Alex Tilley, scientist at WorldFish, and Dave Solomon, CEO…
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
06.03.20"An encounter thirty years ago in rural Costa Rica stays with me to this day.…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms: Can climate-smart agriculture produce gender equality?
06.03.20-
Agriculture
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Climate smart
As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on…
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Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
05.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
04.03.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…
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Time to change the system: Researchers reveal experiences in a biased world
04.03.20An excerpt from our upcoming podcast: [audio mp3="https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2020/03/IW…
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