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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
CGIAR12.02.21Climate 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
CGIAR09.02.21Extreme 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
CGIAR26.01.21-
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
CGIAR25.01.21-
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
CGIAR04.01.21-
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
CGIAR18.12.20-
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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)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
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)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
HarvestPlus11.03.21-
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
HarvestPlus11.03.21-
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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
WorldFish11.03.21-
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
CGIAR GENDER Platform10.03.21-
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
CGIAR GENDER Platform10.03.21-
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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
CGIAR09.03.21CGIAR 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
WorldFish09.03.21-
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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)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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