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Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Indigenous communities are crucial to the protection and monitoring of the world’s most precious e…

Mine compensation process in Africa should protect women’s rights, WoMin group urges

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Gender equality

Women in Africa are paying a disproportionate price for mineral and fuel extraction, according to…

When saying 'see, it works!' isn’t enough: Sharing results from an evaluation of video-mediated extension in Ethiopia

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Food security

BY DAVID J. SPIELMAN, SIMRIN MAKHIJA, GASHAW T. ABATE AND TANGUY BERNARD For many researchers at …

A4NH and partners convene ANH Academy Week 2018 in Ghana

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Health
Nutrition

Over 350 scientists from 50 countries met in Accra, Ghana on 25–29 June 2018 to…

Committed to soil and water conservation

Environmental health

Initiatives to restore degraded land on a large scale have gained huge momentum during recent…

Comprehensive REDD+ tool ID-RECCO is updated and now hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

BOGOR, Indonesia (7 August 2018) – The innovative REDD+ monitoring tool, International Database on…

New paper on relationship between autonomy and decision making contributes to understanding and measurement of women’s empowerment

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Gender equality

Despite widespread agreement on the importance of women’s empowerment, ambiguity still exists abou…

What do equity and equality have to do with it? Insights for food and nutrition from development studies research

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Food security
Nutrition

Equity and equality are important themes in food and nutrition, but the existing literature has…

How and why iron-biofortified pearl millet improves cognitive function: A look inside a new study

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Food security
Nutrition

BY SAMUEL SCOTT “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy, 1961…

When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’

CGIAR Research Program on Fish

Food security
Gender equality

This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pas…

Nigeria workshop seeks to scale up proven technologies, boost aquaculture production in West and Central Africa

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Participants from several West and Central African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Iv…

Nigeria workshop seeks to scale up proven technologies, boost aquaculture production in West and Central Africa

WorldFish

Participants from several West and Central African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Iv…

Rights in the DRC: Whose rights matter?

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Democratic Republic of the Congo - “We need change,” says Dorothée Lisenga, indigenous delegate…

Aflasafe GH02 launched in Ghana

CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

Food security

On 29 June 2018, A4NH researchers with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) we…

Sharing the risk of blue carbon investment in ‘era of SDGs’

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental health

The public and private sectors must join forces to finance blue carbon, in order to…

Agroforestry could make agriculture emissions-neutral by 2050