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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
CGIAR12.02.21Climate 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
CGIAR09.02.21Extreme 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
CGIAR26.01.21-
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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
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World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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
CGIAR18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Strong Women, Strong Nation
WorldFish12.10.20-
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Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help…
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Empowered rural women take on entrepreneurship
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.10.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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The COVID-19 lockdown has been hard on people across India, but particularly agonizing for families…
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En route to improved agronomic literacy
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.10.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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In the years of the Nepal's civil war, women in rural villages like Masuriya faced…
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Inside Ethiopia’s agricultural success story
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.10.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Ethiopia’s rapid economic and agricultural growth over the past two decades i…
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Q&A: How blockchain can create social and environmental impacts
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.10.20-
Big data
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Blockchain promises to revolutionize the economic system by changing the way we communicate over the…
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G20 agriculture and water ministers set agenda for responsible investments in agrifood systems but fail to agree on climate change language
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)07.10.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Agriculture and water ministers from the G20 countries met jointly f…
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Survey: Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)06.10.20-
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Findings from a recent study (Aug 2020) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia suggest that telephone surveys…
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Knowledge brokers as a bridge between research and policy
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)04.10.20-
Climate
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Dan McGonigle joined the UK Civil Service in 2007 as a scientific advisor. In 2015…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: What is conservation agriculture?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)01.10.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers worldwide are increasingly adopting conservation agriculture. In the 2015/2016 season, conse…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19 impacts on African agricultural trade and food security
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)30.09.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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BY JULIE KURTZ The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled a number of African agricultural exports, while…
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Ensuring Delivery of Biofortified Crops and Foods Amid COVID-19 in Nigeria
HarvestPlus30.09.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the global spread of COVID-19 disrupted agricultural value chains in numerous countries, HarvestP…
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Cost and safety of food are major factors influencing adolescents’ food choices in urban Ethiopia
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)29.09.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An innovative study by the universities of Addis Ababa and Wageningen and the French National…
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New methods aren’t always silver bullets: Challenges with use of the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation for elasticity estimation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)29.09.20-
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BY ALAN DE BRAUW ANDÂ SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ How do different types of expenditures relate to households'…
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Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)29.09.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…
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IFPRI mentorship journeys: Providing advice and research support for Malawi agriculture students
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.09.20-
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BY SANDRA FRÖBE-KALTENBACH AND CYNTHIA KAZEMBE First in a two-part series on IFPRI Malawi’s Bund…
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Striding towards streamlined crop improvement programs
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)25.09.20-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To better accomplish its mission by providing improved crop varieties to smallholder farmers, ICRISA…
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Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
WorldFish25.09.20-
Climate
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Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems…
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Food market stability: A necessary step for global social and environmental sustainability
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.09.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY PABLO ELVERDIN, MARTIN PIÑEIRO, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, ESTEFANIA PURICELLI, MARCELO REGUNAGA AND…
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