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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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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Enabling markets and public sector actions to incentivize sustainable practices
28.05.20-
Climate
Many technologies and practices can help farmers improve their incomes and help the environment, but…
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Transforming food systems for a new era: Supporting prosperity through mobility and rural reinvigoration
26.05.20-
Climate
A number of years ago, while interviewing farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe, one of us (Bruce)…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
19.05.20-
Climate
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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COVID-19: Flattening the food insecurity curve
06.05.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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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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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Garlic—A potent (if pungent) ‘Gas X’ methane reducer for cows?
02.05.20-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Dairy cow in Embu, Kwnya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Cattle produce more methane than many…
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How trees and water fuel sustainable communities
30.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
This podcast will take you into the underground river hidden beneath the karst ecosystem and…
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When climate and Covid-19 collide: Ten steps to prepare South Asia
28.04.20-
Climate
As if managing the evolving coronavirus pandemic is not enough, countries in South Asia are…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
Big data
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Climate
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report of 2005 have changed the global percept…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
24.04.20-
Climate
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Nutrition
Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemicÂ
22.04.20-
Climate
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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