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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
16.10.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Disaster Reduction
13.10.19-
Climate
We have to accept that in many cases we cannot stop floods or droughts, but…
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A fresh look at the genes behind grain weight in spring bread wheat
09.10.19-
Genomics
To meet the demand for wheat from a rising and quickly urbanizing population, wheat yields…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
08.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
05.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Genomics
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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 document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
02.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
01.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Mushrooms for prosperity in Chin State
28.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
A mushroom research and training programme in Myanmar is aiming to lift farmers out of…
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Learning from past initiatives for expanding the scale of land restoration in Africa
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Former ways have been reviewed and new approaches put forward at a major conference on…
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Rice-fish farming could help boost farmers’ income in Myanmar’s “rice bowl”
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
MAUBIN Township, Myanmar—Aquaculture production in rice-based cropping systems could potentially b…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar work together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
25.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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Fixing forests: how Decision Analysis is working on the ground in East Africa
24.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Among East Africa’s biodiversity hotspots is the Desa’a forest, which borders Tigray and Afar in…
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Flood-Based Livelihoods Symposium: Harnessing the potential of flood water
22.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Researchers, governments and development agencies are hastening to harness the potential of floodwat…
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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme
20.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. Th…
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Beating Famine turns its attention to the Sahel
18.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Land is being restored in Africa’s dry Sahel region to ensure food security The semi-arid…
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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
15.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing t…
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Unlocking the secrets of tropical trees
14.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Tropical forests are magical places. Inside the bustling canopy,…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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The Molecular Maize Atlas encourages genetic diversity
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of…
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