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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
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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
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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
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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
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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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Good Nutrition is Crucial for the Coronavirus Vaccine to Work Effectively
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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
CGIAR09.11.20An 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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)15.12.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)12.12.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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
CGIAR Research Program on Wheat11.12.20-
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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)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
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)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
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)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
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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”
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.12.20The Multimedia team at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and our produce…
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Digital groundwater monitoring
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)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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