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G20 Must Catalyze the Transforming of our Food Systems
01.07.21-
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CGIAR called on the G20 to foster international cooperation that transforms food systems through a…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
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G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
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From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
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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-
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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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Techniques to enhance the genetic gain in crop breeding programs
10.06.21-
Genomics
Dr. Michael Baum, ICARDA’s Acting Deputy Director General for Research, Research Team Leader of Br…
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Changing rainfall erodes a landscape. Watershed interventions halt the downward spiral
10.06.21-
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Watershed interventions have led to 1-2.5 meters higher groundwater levels, providing lifesaving irr…
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Winning, ‘climate-smart’, ways to feed India’s dairy cows—Jimmy Smith, of ILRI
09.06.21-
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(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in Sou…
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2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies
09.06.21-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…
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African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
09.06.21-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…
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Never let good waste become a crisis: lessons for the Global South
09.06.21-
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As a global society, we waste a third – 1.3 billion metric tons – of…
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New report from UN Nutrition untangles risks and benefits of food from livestock for sustainable healthy diets, focusing on challenges linked to both abundance and scarcity
08.06.21-
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A more balanced, sustainable approach to consuming food from livestock—one that meets nutrition ne…
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ILRI's Jimmy Smith on the livestock controversies holding back greater use of milk, meat and eggs to nourish the undernourished
08.06.21Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), today gave …
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Remote sensing for irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and pitfalls
08.06.21-
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There is growing demand for sustainable development policy that is data driven, but our unprecedente…
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GDI Graduates look to change the future
08.06.21Members of CGIAR’s Executive Management team welcomed the graduation of 42 colleagues from a Speci…
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Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit
08.06.21-
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BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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World Food Prize Laureate Shakuntala Thilsted urges UN Assembly to act on aquatic foods
08.06.21-
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WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who was recently …
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In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
08.06.21-
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WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in…
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Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste
08.06.21-
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Since achieving its independence 20 years ago, Timor-Leste has set out to forge a cohesive…
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Equitible digital tools can boost small-scale fisher livelihoods
08.06.21-
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While some specific applications of mobile technologies are well understood, their role in governanc…
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Nutrition scientist Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted awarded the 2021 World Food Prize
08.06.21-
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Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health at WorldFish, was na…
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Small businesses fuel Zambia’s aquaculture sector
08.06.21-
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Northern Zambia’s growing small-scale aquaculture sector offers new opportunities to improve food …
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Zambian aquaculture provides new opportunities for youth
08.06.21-
Climate
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Zambia’s emerging aquaculture sector is set to be a key supplier of fish and other…
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