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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
16.10.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Disaster Reduction
13.10.19-
Climate
We have to accept that in many cases we cannot stop floods or droughts, but…
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A fresh look at the genes behind grain weight in spring bread wheat
09.10.19-
Genomics
To meet the demand for wheat from a rising and quickly urbanizing population, wheat yields…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Funding genebank routines … forever
17.01.19-
Biodiversity
In 2018, the Crop Trust entered into a long-term partnership agreement (LPA) with the International…
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The Great Food Transformation
15.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Launched today, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems sets out pr…
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A global community seedbank platform
07.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Ronnie Vernooy, discusses how Bioversity International and part…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste
22.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agr…
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Trees on farms: a biodiversity assessment tool
20.12.18-
Big data
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Biodiversity
Researchers have created a new tool to measure biological diversity in farm land, which will…
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In Andhra Pradesh, ICRAF starts deep dive into science of Zero-Budget Natural Farming
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) is reported to be followed by 8% of farmers in Andhra…
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Top of the tree: FTA in 2018
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate
The year 2018 saw the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) chalk…
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The Tamale Declaration: a regreening plan for northern Ghana
18.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
An international workshop has called for an integrated plan to regreen the region. The climax…
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REDD+ and the Sustainable Development Goals: the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo
17.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The rainforest nation is taking steps to improve links between the two mechanisms. The Democratic…
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Seed diversity vital to achieve landscape restoration pledges
14.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Optimally achieving forest landscape restoration – and its associated benefits for ecology and hum…
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Untold Tale of the Tepary
14.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This holiday season, Bioversity International tells the story of the nutritious and resilient, yet…
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Sharing best practices for banana germplasm conservation and exchange
13.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
Latin American and Caribbean banana collection curators came together for the MusaNet Regional Works…
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CATIE presents results on sentinel landscapes in Nicaragua-Honduras
12.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate
One of the most innovative approaches from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and…
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Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects less…
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Standing tall: Bamboo from restoration to economic development
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Can grass be used to make tissues, furniture, pipes and even housing? Can it help…
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Livestock and silvopastoral systems in Latin America: how to measure the greenhouse gases
07.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Researchers are sharing knowledge about how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock and in…
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