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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Untapped: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
07.11.19-
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
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste…
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Innovating for change: Interview with Maria Andrade a sweetpotato champion
15.05.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
An accomplished sweetpotato breeder and tireless advocate for improving the nutrition and wellbeing …
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
14.05.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
14.05.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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Evidence from Malawi: Why agricultural and nutrition education programs should engage both women and men in households
14.05.19-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Gender norms and inequalities are an important factor in Malawi’s ongoing food security problems. …
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Study endorses processing of biofortified sweetpotato-based baby food in reducing malnutrition
10.05.19-
Nutrition
Scientists at the International Potato Center (CIP) have welcomed a recent study supporting the comm…
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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist
08.05.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that …
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A different focus on stunting
06.05.19-
Nutrition
Is stunting the problem we need to solve, or the indicator of the problems we…
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Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
06.05.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works prog…
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Ending undernutrition requires a different focus on stunting
26.04.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Anyone following international development is probably familiar with “stunting”—which in nonte…
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Ask the researchers: Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project
26.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Researchers with Bioversity International recently shared information on the Biodiversity for Food a…
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Food systems innovations for healthier diets: A conceptual framework
24.04.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The Food Systems for Healthier Diets flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for…
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FoodSTART+ featured in the latest iMPACT magazine issue
22.04.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
FoodSTART+ Principal Investigator, Diego Naziri, and CIAT Market Access Specialist, Brice Even share…
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IFPRI/A4NH at the Purdue Global Hunger Colloquium: Policy innovation is key to accelerating progress
22.04.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Leading figures in the global fight against hunger gathered at Purdue University April 10-11 for…
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Eating stories: On the contested future of meat–with, and without, feet
18.04.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sketch of three people sharing a meal by Vincent Van Gogh (Van Gogh Gallery). In…
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Are we reducing hunger in the world?
17.04.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas
16.04.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
15.04.19-
Big data
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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