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A strategic guide: Working towards food security in the drylands, through COVID-19 and beyond
29.05.20-
Food security
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Health
ICRISAT is well positioned to significantly contribute to efforts towards restoring food security in…
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What African farmers and processors say about the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns
29.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Maintaining the dialog with the farming community and industry Farmers and other key stakeholders in…
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Flipping the script on rainfall data
29.05.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the last few hours before Covid-19 locked CGIAR centers staff into remote work, a…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Food security
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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Africa’s most vulnerable are called to bear the brunt of a pandemic
27.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Securing farming communities through and after COVID-19 is a priority One of world’s harshest terr…
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CGIAR awarding 100K in Rapid Response Grants to digital innovations tackling COVID-19 impacts
26.05.20-
Big data
In response to the unfolding food security issues brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR’s…
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Can Egypt’s fish markets empower women and men retailers equally? Prospects for change and barriers to success
26.05.20-
Gender equality
Unless gender inequalities in food systems are recognized and addressed, nutrition security and pove…
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Covid crisis has shown India’s food policy must have buffer stocks at community level too
26.05.20Representational image for Indian agriculture | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg Accustomed…
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COVID-19 calls for renewed focus on eating right and natural
24.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Post-COVID-19 scenario offers a unique opportunity to seize the moment and repurpose policies toward…
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Will COVID-19 put the kibosh on major in-person conferences for good?
23.05.20The COVID-19 global lockdown has made a big dent in daily carbon emissions, according to…
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Delivering Nourishing Sweet Potatoes to Panama’s Markets Amid COVID-19 Crisis
21.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Ariquimedes Peralta is a grower of biofortified vitamin A orange sweet potato (OSP) living in…
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Survey suggests rising risk of food and nutrition insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 restrictions continue
21.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KALLE HIRVONEN, GASHAW TADESSE ABATE AND ALAN DE BRAUW Countries have taken varied actions to l…
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COVID-19 and global trade implications for food systems and healthy diets
21.05.20-
Food security
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Health
The authors consider rippling impacts of COVID-19 on trade as food system actors experience loss…
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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
20.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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What can COVID-19 teach us about responding to climate change?
20.05.20In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have been taking a range of different measures,…
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How small fishers in Kerala’s Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system
19.05.20-
Food security
Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19…
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Covid-19: Hitting rural farming
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…
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