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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-
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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-
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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
24.08.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
24.08.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
20.08.20-
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
The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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The Role of Climate and Food Systems Science in Conflict Prevention and Peace-building
19.08.20-
Climate
Written by Nam Nguyen and Diego Osorio. Image credit: Tobin Jones/UN Photo CGIAR FOCUS Climate…
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Digital defenses: Can high-tech insurance flood-proof vulnerable farmers?
14.08.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. This was…
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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Boosting restoration through the airwaves
07.08.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Radio programs are spreading the good work of the Regreening Africa project in Senegal ‘Good…
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Harnessing digital tools for climate and agriculture
05.08.20-
Climate
A “technological boom” without missing fundamentals Digital tools (DTs) in agriculture to educat…
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Harvesting crop data from space to increase climate and nutrition security
04.08.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
As the crew of Apollo 13 famously understated when their spacecraft was shaken by an…
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Farmers’ responses to warming early in growing seasons can affect yields
03.08.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Yanyan Liu and Emily Wu Most of the time, conversations about the impacts of…
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Policy seminar: Europe’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies aim to build healthy and sustainable food systems
30.07.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Khiem Nguyen The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have underlined the importance of…
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It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms
30.07.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Researchers call on the Government to promulgate the draft national agroforestry strategy to hasten …
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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CIP’s Andean Initiative takes flight
24.07.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
A fascinating 90-minute international panel discussion this morning kicked off the International Pot…
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Supporting smallholder farmers to better combat drought
23.07.20-
Climate
Researchers from the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project have been exploring th…
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How and why to merge ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance?
22.07.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The pertinence of ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance couldn’t be more timely considering th…
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