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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
20.01.20The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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Tribute to Azage Tegegne, leading Ethiopian livestock scientist
14.01.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It is with as much shock as sorrow that we report the untimely death of…
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New CGIAR dashboard shows results in a new light
13.01.20Interested in how CGIAR is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Looking for mor…
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Hand-holding outgrowers to produce certified seed in drought-stricken Ghana – a model to emulate
13.01.20Access to quality seed remains a big challenge for farmers in Africa. With increasing drought…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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IITA Scientist elected to prestigious global science body
27.11.19Leena Tripathi, a Principal Scientist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA…
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Contributions of biodiversity to the sustainable intensification of food production
27.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Biodiverse agriculture is critical for the survival of the world’s food systems. A new study…
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Network analysis reveals where to act effectively in seed systems
26.11.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An innovative approach to seed systems, spearheaded by scientists working with the CGIAR Research Pr…
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
26.11.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
26.11.19A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Claudia Sadoff featured in Stockholm Water Front
26.11.19-
Climate
In an interview for the Stockholm Water Front magazine Claudia Sadoff raises awareness of the…
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New world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
25.11.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score…
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How a disease without borders was contained
25.11.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
t’s been eight years since maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported on the African…
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Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean
25.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The social upheavals occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have equally impacted co…
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Ahmed Amri: From Morocco to Syria … and back again
25.11.19-
Biodiversity
Name a tune and chances are Ahmed Amri can sing it for you. If he…
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Research: Cash transfers significantly decrease violence against women in polygamous households in Mali
22.11.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The new paper investigates the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri) on …
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
22.11.19-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
22.11.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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IITA joins other CGIAR centers to provide support to rebuild Somalia’s Agriculture sector
22.11.19IITA and eight other CGIAR centers have met with officials from the Government of Somalia and…
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IITA scientist highlights healthy diets at World Food Day seminar
22.11.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on 16 October and dedicated to tackle hunger…
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Global tilapia industry under threat from highly contagious disease
22.11.19The world’s second most farmed fish, tilapia, is under threat from a highly contagious disease…
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Nutrition Society of Nigeria annual conference: Opportunities for experience sharing across A4NH flagships, between Nigeria and Ethiopia
21.11.19-
Nutrition
The annual conference of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria held in Abuja in September 2019…
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