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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Climate
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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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Creating a team of young scientists equipped with tech tools to fight pests and diseases
16.03.21A recent workshop on pest and disease modeling for crops was conducted for young scientists…
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The heat never bothered me anyway: Gender-specific response of agricultural labor to climatic shocks in Tanzania
15.03.21-
Climate
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
As the magnitude, intensity, and frequency of weather extremes increases uncertainty and risks to l…
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Predicting economic impact from restoring forests and landscapes: lessons from Ethiopia
15.03.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a world where the well-being of 3.2 billion people is undermined by the degradation…
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Shared waters and data exchange – the gap between principle and practice
15.03.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Exchanging data across borders in transboundary basins is key to averting disasters, managing risks,…
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A knowledge revolution
12.03.21The key to transforming food production systems globally lies in knowledge management processes, acc…
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Special training sessions initiated for young women and hearing-impaired youth in Ghana
12.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
To unlock the potential of youth in agriculture, we need targeted, inclusive interventions that appe…
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Study Shows Biofortified Maize Improves Vitamin A Content of Breast Milk
11.03.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new study shows that eating maize biofortified with vitamin A increased the levels of this impo…
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Dinavance Kyomuhendo: A Self-Made Entrepreneur and Biofortification Champion from Uganda
11.03.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Dinavance Kyomuhendo, 43, from the Nalweyo sub-county in the Kakumiro district, Uganda, is a single…
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Africa’s processed food revolution and the double burden of malnutrition
11.03.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS In recent decades, economic growth in Africa south of…
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Low-cost technology boosts women’s livelihoods amidst pandemic in Bangladesh
11.03.21-
Big data
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Climate
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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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Through disruption to aquatic food value chains, the COVID-19 pandemic has jeopardized the livelihoo…
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The invisible generation holding the key to Africa’s future food security
10.03.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
authored by Esther Njuguna-Mungai This op-ed was first published by AllAfrica.com on March 8, 2021.…
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To close its labor gender gap, India must address its data gap
10.03.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
authored by Ranjitha Puskur This op-ed was first published by Al Jazeera on March 8,…
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Power steering
10.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21-
Genomics
The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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CGIAR launches the Panel Pledge for more panel diversity and inclusion
09.03.21CGIAR launched its Panel Pledge on Monday, March 8th, International Women’s Day, committing CGIAR …
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‘Bringing a change’ in women’s equitable involvement in aquaculture
09.03.21-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the…
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The transformative value of maize
08.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The state of Odisha, in the east of India, ranks sixth in rice production in…
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Perceptions data can help us challenge sexist norms around land and housing
08.03.21-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
On the International Women’s Day – and every day – we must call out gender bias wherever w…
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