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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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How trees and water fuel sustainable communities
30.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
This podcast will take you into the underground river hidden beneath the karst ecosystem and…
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Flexible farming preserves potato diversity… for now
29.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A detailed survey of mountain communities in Peru has revealed that farmers are adjusting to…
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Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
Reasons to consider seeds in the time of the coronavirus Perhaps you think that the…
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Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report of 2005 have changed the global percept…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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FEATURE: Organizing farmers into tree-based enterprises
14.04.20-
Biodiversity
The Philippine Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) is a hu…
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Disease outbreaks linked to degraded ecosystems: A problem ALL of us are driving and ALL of us need to solve
14.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Kenya’s wildlife-rich rangelands with cattle and wildlife (photo credit: ILRI/Dave Elsworth). ‘W…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
08.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Hari Upadhyaya: The fearless breeder in the genebank
08.04.20-
Biodiversity
As a young man growing up in the village of Shiwala in India’s Uttar Pradesh,…
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Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities
30.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a ten-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good…
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Participants appreciate the practicality of training in seed procurement
27.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Participants of a training course organized by the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio (PATS…
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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
21.03.20-
Biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises. Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places…
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The role of agroforestry in forest restoration
20.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) was launched in 201…
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Backing up crop biodiversity collections for agriculture’s future
16.03.20-
Biodiversity
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently joined 34 other organizations across the globe in dep…
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