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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-
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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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Prof Prabhu Pingali takes the baton as Chair of ICRISAT Governing Board
09.10.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Prof Prabhu Pingali, Founding Director, Tata-Cornell Institute, took charge as ICRISAT Governing Boa…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
02.10.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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A new digital hub to consolidate learnings from global food legume initiatives
02.10.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
To enable crop researchers and policymakers access information on the three Tropical Legumes project…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
29.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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Nomadic pastoralist communities: An invisible frontier in health surveillance
29.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A new research paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Sept 2020)…
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Seven villages, 700 women, one story: Plant nurseries in Niger are changing lives
25.09.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A group of women across four regions of south-western Niger have grown 84,000 trees to…
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Seed consortium to bring improved sorghum to Indian farmers post rains
18.09.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
To make quality seeds of improved sorghum easily accessible, a consortium of institutions is taking…
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COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
14.09.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY MARIE RUEL AND DEREK HEADEY As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and persist, disrupting…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon…
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Increased funding support to AVISA to accelerate crop improvement and improve seed delivery systems
11.09.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
One year after it began, Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals…
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Experts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food markets
11.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report…
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Transforming African food systems for a resilient future
10.09.20-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository
10.09.20-
Big data
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project,…
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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children
09.09.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tade…
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Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
09.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
05.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin are among the highest in the world, owing…
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Supermarketization is not the only strategy to enhance food safety in China
05.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In a new paper, the author explores how supermarketization of China's vegetable sector has impacted…
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How long do seeds live? A 100-year experiment in the Arctic to reveal the secret
04.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Genebanks of six global research institutions including ICRISAT have begun a 100-year experiment at …
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