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New Director General of Bioversity International and Chief Executive Officer Designate of the Alliance between CIAT and Bioversity International
28.11.18Juan Lucas Restrepo has been appointed to the position of Director General of Bioversity Internation…
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Ambitious steps to control climate change may pose food security risks in the near term
27.11.18- Climate
- Environment
- Food Security
The world faces a series of mounting challenges if it is to head off impacts…
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How will the Philippines measure the success of its flagship reforestation program?
27.11.18- Biodiversity
- Climate
The participation of public and private entities is a crucial element in developing a monitoring…
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A new project promises to generate better dietary and health data for agriculture and nutrition interventions in Africa
15.11.18- Health
- Nutrition
Despite significant efforts to address it, malnutrition remains a major impediment to development ar…
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Lessons from Latin America: Using less, earning more
13.11.18- Environment
- Prosperity
Abílio Rodrigues Pacheco is a landowner in the Brazilian state of Goiás who works for…
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Opinion: Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
12.11.18- Big data
- Food Security
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, howe…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
30.10.18- Environment
- Food Security
(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Design features of successful social protection programs
29.10.18- Prosperity
Rooted in the notion that most poor Africans reside in rural areas and earn their…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18- Environment
- Food Security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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Small-scale fisheries guidelines represent voyage of struggle, empathy and support
29.10.18The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries were the first sector-specif…
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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds
29.10.18- Environment
- Prosperity
Researchers at Africa Water Week call for efforts to “decolonize” and improve water permit syste…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18- Environment
- Food Security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
29.10.18- Climate
- Environment
We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
28.10.18- Health
- Nutrition
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a…
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WEBINAR: Do medium and large-scale farms generate income spillovers for rural households? The case of Tanzania
26.10.18- Food Security
- Prosperity
Land acquisitions by foreign and local investors has generated much speculation about the impacts on…
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Social protection for the extreme poor: What works?
26.10.18- Prosperity
Although the share of population living on less than $1.90 per day worldwide dropped from…
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The Emperor's new NAFTA
26.10.18- Prosperity
On Sep. 30, the United States and Canada—following a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18- Climate
- Environment
- Food Security
- Gender
- Prosperity
The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher
26.10.18- Food Security
- Nutrition
A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced i…
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CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research - Third quarter newsletter issue
26.10.18- Gender
In this latest newsletter issue from the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, we featur…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18- Health
- Nutrition
AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18- Health
- Nutrition
A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
26.10.18- Climate
- Environment
In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
25.10.18- Food Security
- Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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