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23.04.18

Biodiversity
Environmental health

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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors

23.04.18

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…

A Ponzi scheme with Nature?

23.04.18

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

A few months back, we shared our first impressions of new research on the Zambian…

New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

21.04.18

Biodiversity
Food security

Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…

Earth Day 2018: Solar-powered irrigation can boost rural development, but also poses risks

20.04.18

Environmental health
Food security

BY AVINASH KISHORE Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural productio…

‘Living tools’ at the frontier of vaccine development—A Keystone Symposium workshop by Vish Nene

20.04.18

Health

Health for Animals and the World Veterinary Association launched the first annual World Animal Vacci…

World Agroforestry Centre's Kanoppi Project in Yogyakarta Gunung Kidul, Indonesia. The project aims to improve smallholders livelihoods through landscape-scale management of the farm–forest interface.

Global emissions targets in focus at rainforest summit in Indonesia

CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)

Environmental health

Discussions at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) in Indonesia next week will kick off with…

GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…

Enhancing seed quality in Sri Lanka through improved drying and storage

Food security

IRRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations through the Closing Rice…

Fishing with a new research method nets bountiful insights

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

Biodiversity
Food security

Why might fish stocks be more depleted inside a marine protected area (MPA) than…

Youth migration and labor constraints in African agrarian households

18.04.18

Food security
Gender equality
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

The new paper investigates how youth migration in Ethiopia and Malawi affects household labor, hired…

In REDD+ villages, women say their wellbeing has declined

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Gender equality

Climate change interventions in forest communities are still not getting it right when it comes…

Is Ghana serious about decentralization?

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

BY DANIELLE RESNICK On March 15, Ghana celebrated the creation of 38 new metropolitan, municipal,…

Is waste the next big business opportunity?

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Environmental health
Food security

A new 800-page book profiles multiple ways to harness waste to help fill the world’s…

Two women scientists to receive ICRISATs highest scientific award

CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC)

Gender equality

Dr Mamta Sharma and Dr Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur are joint recipients of the Doreen Margaret Mashler…

Tackling the Hard Questions Head On to Define Tomorrow’s Research Agenda: Let the Countdown to Science Forum 2018 Begin!

Food security

In just under six months’ time Science Forum 2018 – Win more, lose less: Capturing synergies b…

Why social forestry: Securing the sap