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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-
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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-
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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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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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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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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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Elevating women’s role to improve food systems
08.09.20-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Women play a vital role in growing, processing and marketing food in developing countries, yet…
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New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’
08.09.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
Lilian Satia, a young dairy entrepreneur in Nakuru, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). Yeste…
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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?
02.09.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN…
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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?
29.08.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up…
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High altitudes linked to higher rates of stunting
27.08.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY KALEAB BAYE, KALLE HIRVONEN AND EMILY WU Child stunting affects nearly 155 million globally, on…
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Data collection in a diverse and complex food system
25.08.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IFPRI’s objectives in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are to strengthen data collection and analysis to…
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A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
24.08.20-
Nutrition
Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
24.08.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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Tackling drought with pro-vitamin A sweetpotato in Africa
20.08.20-
Nutrition
Over the last decade, sweetpotato has gradually become increasing more common and important in the…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
20.08.20-
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The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
Climate
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What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
Climate
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Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Zinc study suggests possible role for biofortification in addressing non-communicable diseases
12.08.20-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
By Laura Pompano and Erick Boy The double burden of malnutrition is a rapidly growing…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
07.08.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
High-yielding chickpea and finger millet varieties with yield potential of up to 3 tons per…
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