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Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
30.04.20-
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Despite many exemptions from lockdown, the agricultural sector in India has experienced major disrup…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
27.04.20-
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In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
24.04.20-
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From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Phone app gives opportunity to improve water productivity in Lebanon
21.04.20-
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
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An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming
30.03.20-
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A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
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A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
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The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development
21.02.20-
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“The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
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Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
06.01.20-
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In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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Key technology for biofortification goes online
13.12.19-
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Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
10.12.19-
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Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
04.11.19-
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Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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Mobile-based monitoring tool rolled out for national partners in 7 African countries
01.11.19-
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“The MLE [Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation] tool MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation of Agri-Sci…
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