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IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
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Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
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To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
10.09.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
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Does aflatoxin stunt child growth? Evidence from the first randomized trial
21.02.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Current evidence on the link between aflatoxin and stunting is limited to observational research. A…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
15.02.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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There’s a new goal post for agriculture: It’s nutrition.
08.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This blog post is the first in a 3-part series accompanying the release of the…
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Is our global food system broken?
08.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
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Why empowering young people is key to ending global hunger and malnutrition
07.02.19-
Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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Use of Targeted Genome Editing
07.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
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Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
05.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
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Working with universities in developing countries
04.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“ The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role.” In this video interview, Nighisty…
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Repairing food systems failures: Policies, innovations and partnerships
01.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The current food system is failing us. We need to develop a more integrated systems perspective…
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Acceleration through collaboration: IFPRI side event at Davos 2019
01.02.19-
Nutrition
To accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition, we must work together with all key…
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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
01.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change
31.01.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change
31.01.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Clim…
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
28.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sehgal Foundation is aligning some big initiatives with the Smart Food Endowment Fund to help crea…
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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
28.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet…
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
26.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Illustrations by (left to right): Hiroko Yoshimoto, Ranganath Krishnamani, Yusuke Yonezu III. The …
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