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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 2, Harold Alderman)
30.04.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Harold Alderman, senior research fellow at IFPRI and collaborator in PIM’s “Social Protection fo…
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New modeling toolkit aids development planners in MENA countries
30.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY MAI MAHMOUD Prioritization of rural investments is crucial for ensuring inclusive growth, sustain…
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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD Conference Highlights
30.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and h…
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IRRI and Korea strengthen partnership to improve country’s local rice sector
30.04.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IRRI is working closely with the Government of the Republic of Korea through its…
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Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 1, Daniel Gilligan)
29.04.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In this video, Daniel Gilligan, senior research fellow at IFPRI and leader of PIM's research…
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‘INCUBATED WORLDS’: Highlights of a unique art+poultry facility launched in Addis Ababa
29.04.18-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
'INCUBATED WORLDS'—unique art+poultry facility—launched in Addis Read an article at Thoms…
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2018 GFPR Geneva Launch: Aligning investments, policies to build stronger food systems
27.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Governments and development organizations should take steps to better align their…
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Chickens for greater prosperity in rural Ethiopia
27.04.18-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
‘We combine the ultramodern research facility in Ethiopia with the fascinating art installations o…
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New Index: Pro-WEAI Measures Women’s Empowerment, Agency, and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
26.04.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Pro-WEAI measures women’s empowerment and inclusion at the project level Helps projects to identif…
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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
26.04.18-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, INDIRA YERRAMAREDDY AND SURESH BABU The data era has arrived. Stakeholders, ent…
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Webinar: Measuring food losses: a new methodology
25.04.18-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Despite broad interest in the problem, measurement of food loss and waste is problematical, especial…
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Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
25.04.18-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units commit delivery of good quality germplasm
25.04.18-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The GHU is composed of germplasm experts from CGIAR centers including AfricaRice, Bioversity Interna…
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Social forestry impacts local livelihoods in Indonesia
23.04.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a two-part series, the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forests News examin…
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
23.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
21.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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Earth Day 2018: Solar-powered irrigation can boost rural development, but also poses risks
20.04.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY AVINASH KISHORE Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural productio…
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GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis
19.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…
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