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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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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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Reassessing the aid-policy-growth relationship: A new approach
09.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY XIN GENG AND MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ Can foreign aid be effective only if countries have…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems
09.07.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …
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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
06.07.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
06.07.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
06.07.18-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
06.07.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
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Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day
06.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…
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RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions
05.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
04.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Climate change impacts on rice in Africa
03.07.18-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization…
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Lessons in scaling up agriculture and building sustainability from Brazil and beyond
02.07.18-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY GRACE COLLORD The agricultural changes in Brazil, Asia, and the United States in recent…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
02.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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Staple Crop Yields Alone Will Not Solve Poverty
28.06.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An exclusive focus on improving staple crop yields in developing countries is increasingly questione…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
28.06.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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Tanzania unveils high iron beans under International Potato Center led initiative
28.06.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Tanzania has officially released two high-iron and zinc bean varieties. The Minister for Agriculture…
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Rice stakeholders highlight importance of creating value-adding activities for rice
27.06.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In Asia, achieving food security remains an important issue, as the consumption of rice appears…
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Walmart Foundation invests nearly US$2M in ‘Farmer Market Readiness Program’ in India
27.06.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Over 6000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh will move to an improved business model for better…
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