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Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19
02.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Maximo Torero The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, and in many…
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Prioritizing aquatic food systems key to global food, nutrition security, say panellists at Virtual Ocean Dialogues.
01.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Increased commitment to aquatic food systems will boost food and nutritional security as the world…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
30.06.20Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degr…
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The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid-19 “food pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa
29.06.20-
Gender equality
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-19 appear to be intensifyi…
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Significant economic impacts due to COVID-19 and falling remittances in Myanmar
25.06.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By: Xinshen Diao and Michael Wang As COVID-19 spreads in more low- and middle-income countries,…
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Policy seminar: What is needed for gender-sensitive COVID-19 responses in agriculture and food security?
25.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Khiem Nguyen COVID-19 is posing new challenges to efforts to promote women’s empowerment, threa…
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New research hub to coordinate CGIAR’s COVID-19 response
25.06.20-
Food security
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Health
A CGIAR COVID-19 Hub has been established to consolidate existing scientific evidence and help suppo…
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To counter COVID-19 in Nepal, we must support small-scale women farmers
24.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
COVID 19 has exposed the deeply embedded social and economic inequalities in human societies. The…
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ILRI teams up with research partners to launch CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
24.06.20-
Food security
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Health
The International Livestock Research Institute has teamed up with the International Food Policy Rese…
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World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
23.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Image of the full virion (complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell)…
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How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas
22.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa Policy makers and researchers tracking the impacts of COVID-19…
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Policy seminar: Micronutrients in emergencies – how can we prevent an increase in hidden hunger?
22.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Aynsley Morris The COVID-19 pandemic and associated business shutdowns and other control measures…
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Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: Realismo sin magia
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
By Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla El día 2 de junio, el programa de Latinoamérica y el Caribe…
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Social safety nets are crucial to the COVID-19 response. Some lessons to boost their effectiveness.
18.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Daniel Gilligan The poor and other vulnerable groups are suffering the most negative consequences…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
18.06.20-
Health
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020 and the disease has…
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2020 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Building up food systems with inclusiveness and competitiveness
18.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Donghe Li The COVID-19 pandemic has created huge uncertainties for public health and economies…
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COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
17.06.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Corinna Hawkes The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food…
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