News
Featured news
-
IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
Read more -
Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
Read more -
To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
10.09.19-
Climate
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
Read more -
-
Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate
-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
Read more -
-
Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
Read more -
-
Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
Read more -
Filters
-
Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
18.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
Read more -
-
Can governments promote homestead gardening at scale? The case of Ethiopia
17.01.19-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Eating fruits and vegetables can help ensure adequate nutrition and reduce the risk of heart…
Read more -
-
PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
Climate
-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
-
Nutrition
-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
Read more -
-
Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
04.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
Read more -
-
Tackling the double burden of malnutrition: Time to innovate!
02.01.19-
Nutrition
A flagship program of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health is…
Read more -
-
Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
28.12.18-
Biodiversity
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
Read more -
-
Three new UN resolutions focus on plant health, pulses and food safety
28.12.18-
Climate
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The United Nations General Assembly has declared two new ‘International Days’ and one ‘Year’…
Read more -
-
Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
Read more -
-
Four key steps to a sustainable food future
20.12.18-
Climate
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with rising numbers of people …
Read more -
-
Accelerating progress to end hunger and malnutrition through implementation science
12.12.18-
Nutrition
The recent IFPRI-FAO conference, Accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition, held in Thailand …
Read more -
-
Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
Big data
-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
-
Nutrition
-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
Read more -
-
Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
-
Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects less…
Read more -
-
Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral approach improves child growth in Guatemala
07.12.18-
Nutrition
-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a beha…
Read more -
-
Which are the right crops to enable food security under future climates?
07.12.18-
Climate
-
Nutrition
A new paper sets out to determine if crop-specific research investments can be prioritized to…
Read more -
-
The Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI Announce New Hosting Partnership
05.12.18-
Nutrition
Washington D.C., December 3, 2018 - The Micronutrient Forum (the Forum) and the International Food …
Read more -
-
Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress
04.12.18-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
Read more -
-
Fixing food 2018: Best practices towards the sustainable development goals
03.12.18-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This report investigates best practices in food sustainability across the world. It uses the three…
Read more -
-
Nations urged to accelerate efforts to wipe out hunger and malnutrition
28.11.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
-
Nutrition
-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With hunger and obesity on the rise, a global forum aims to catalyze urgent action…
Read more -