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Unite human, animal and environmental health to prevent the next pandemic, says ILRI/UN report
08.07.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives and disrupt economies across the world, a…
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IITA releases 10-year strategy for managing invasive species in Africa
04.07.20Prevention, early detection and control make up the three-pronged approach that Africa is taking on…
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West Africa | 40 000 producers will benefit from a new European plant breeding project
02.07.20Photo: Groundnut producers from the Fatick region (Senegal) visiting demonstration plots of new vari…
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New brief details drivers of stunting reduction in Vietnam
01.07.20-
Nutrition
This Stories of Change in Nutrition study aims to understand the history, contemporary treatment and…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts
20.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“Essential.” “Obvious.” “The model of the future.” Last month, when more than 1,200 scie…
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Some lessons from a life in food policy
19.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When I was 15 years old, I learned something startling about myself. For the first…
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New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
19.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution ICRISAT’s chickpe…
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The future of livestock in the developing world: myths, complexities and trade-offs
18.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The future of livestock in the developing world was one of the principal themes at…
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How do you provide healthy, sustainable food for world of the future?
14.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, env…
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Policy seminar: What made Malawi’s community childcare centers successful platforms for an agriculture and nutrition program
13.11.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Community-based early childhood development centers have long provided affordable, quality care for …
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ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week
10.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The International Tropical Agriculture Conference, TropAg2019, is being held next week in Brisbane, …
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency…
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2019 CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference: Promoting a quality-driven food system in China
04.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Over the past seven decades, agricultural production has grown fast in China. According to a white…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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IMMANA announces research grant call for applications
29.10.19-
Nutrition
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) program has announ…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
16.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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