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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Choosing between supermarkets and wet markets
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.01.20-
Food security
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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Sensory profiles help cassava breeders develop desirable new varieties
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)12.01.20-
Food security
Detailed and descriptive profiles of different kinds of gari in Benin have been established through…
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Multi-stakeholder workshops for food systems profiles at the A4NH benchmark sites along Vietnam’s rural-urban transect
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)10.01.20-
Food security
Between August and November 2019, three workshops were held in Vietnam to share preliminary results…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)10.01.20-
Food security
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Health
If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)10.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)09.01.20-
Food security
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)08.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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Food imperatives in context of the agriculture, nutrition, and environment nexus
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)08.01.20-
Food security
IRRI Representative for South Asia Dr. Nafees Meah is the guest editor for “Food…
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Advancing state goals with better rice varieties: Bihar Principal Secretary of Agriculture visits ISARC
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)08.01.20-
Food security
ISARC Director Dr. Arvind Kumar tours Government of Bihar’s Principal Secretary of the Depa…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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Knowledge for a Sustainable Food Future: New Foresight Tool Examines Impact of Agricultural Investments
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
How can we feed 10 billion people by 2050? How much and in what ways…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Building an Africa without hunger
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)19.12.19-
Food security
Thirty-two scientists from 21 countries graduated from the African Plant Breeding Academy, led by U…
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New CGIAR ‘GENDER’ Platform and investment announced to build more inclusive agricultural benefits and greater food security in developing countries
CGIAR GENDER Platform19.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, 18 December 2019 — CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,…
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The CGIAR Value Chains Community of Practice 2019 workshop: Methods for Diagnosing and Evaluating Agricultural Value Chains
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)18.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The workshop, organised by PIM and Wageningen University and Research, brought together the CGIAR Co…
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Prevention is better than cure
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)16.12.19-
Food security
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)13.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Fourth in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)13.12.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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