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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Untapped: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
07.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste…
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International Women’s Day 2019: Women in seed systems in Africa
06.03.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
The maize seed sector in eastern and southern Africa is male-dominated. Most seed companies operatin…
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What three Ethiopian women can show us about the promises – and pitfalls – of adopting technology
06.03.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Small-scale irrigation technologies are transforming the backyards of smallholder farmers. For this …
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How can you integrate gender and nutrition in your research?
05.03.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA), a CGIAR Res…
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On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality
05.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
We interviewed our gender leaders Marlène Elias (M.E.) of Bioversity and Jennifer Twyman (J.T.) of…
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Beyond trees: Land restoration to enhance gender equality in Burkina Faso
05.03.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Not all farmers are able to adopt or benefit from landscape restoration practices equally. A…
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Growing mounds of waste offer African women unexpected business opportunities in the bioenergy sector
04.03.19-
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This op-ed first appeared on the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. New technologies and smart busines…
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New publications: Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia
27.02.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Despite formal decentralization, agricultural services in Ethiopia are generally “top-down,” cla…
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The missing seed market: Promoting improved seeds for women farmers
27.02.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In Ethiopia, a World Bank study found that female farm managers produce 23 percent less yield per…
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Celebrating women in science
08.02.19-
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Join us in celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! On this…
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Misuse of the term ‘empowerment’ in daily conversations
28.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In a world where ‘gender integration’ or ‘gender mainstreaming’ is prioritised and practic…
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Gaining a voice: First Women Fishers’ Forum held in Timor-Leste
23.01.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In the remote fishing village of Adara, on Atauro Island in Timor-Leste, men have typically…
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Barking up the same trees: Water and forests 'cannot be separated' in East Africa's Rift Valley
18.01.19-
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Africa - The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their sprin…
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Making small-scale irrigation work for women
15.01.19-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As climate change makes rainfed agriculture an increasingly precarious venture, small-scale irrigati…
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CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research - 2018 fourth quarter newsletter issue
15.01.19-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
[caption id="attachment_13807" align="alignright" width="456"] Newsletter #8 (October-December 2018)…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Weather, climate and gender: Promoting gender equality in rural climate services
27.12.18-
Climate
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Climate change brings with it erratic and shifting weather patterns. The first five months of…
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Challenging gender norms around trees and land restoration in West Africa: can research be transformative?
21.12.18-
Climate
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Trees are important sources of income for many women in the drylands of West Africa,…
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The right tools for the job: enabling breeding programs to be gender-responsive
12.12.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Over the past few decades, gender initiatives across CGIAR have created broad awareness among scient…
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