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New project aims to improve food and nutrition security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
03.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the launch meeting via videoconference Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT A recently lau…
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CGIAR Performance Report 2019 now available online
31.07.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An online report detailing research-to-impact results in 2019 across the CGIAR System is now availab…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Policy options to improve access to quality seed in Vietnam
22.07.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new paper examines Vietnam’s regulatory regime surrounding planting material of vegetatively pro…
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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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ICARDA, CGIAR & COVID-19 - Building Back Better
20.07.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With our experience rebuilding agricultural infrastructure in post-crises environments in Afghanista…
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency…
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2019 CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference: Promoting a quality-driven food system in China
04.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Over the past seven decades, agricultural production has grown fast in China. According to a white…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
29.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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IMMANA announces research grant call for applications
29.10.19-
Nutrition
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) program has announ…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
16.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
15.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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CGIAR centers push recommendations for CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition and Diets
15.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Placing the Global South front and center Among the critical conversations had at the recently…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives
08.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of…
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Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.
07.10.19-
Nutrition
All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Incorporating prevention into community-based management of acute malnutrition: Insights from Mali and Burkina Faso
04.10.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Globally, 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. Children with moderate acute malnutrit…
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