News
Featured news
-
Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
Read more -
-
CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
Read more -
How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
Read more -
Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
Read more -
New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
Read more -
Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
Read more -
Filters
-
Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast by examining alternative crops in the lower Gangetic plains
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)22.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
Wheat blast — one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases — is moving swiftly into ne…
Read more -
-
Can Sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself? A New Entry Point to An Old Question.
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)21.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
This post originally appeared in African Leadership Magazine Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself: Th…
Read more -
-
Groundwater and sustainable development
IWMI21.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
Read more -
-
AfricaRice Science Week 2019 adopts a forward-looking perspective
AfricaRice19.02.19-
Food security
Over five days, more than 70 participants, consisting mainly of AfricaRice scientists, as well as…
Read more -
-
Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)19.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
Read more -
-
Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry19.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
Read more -
-
New infographics illustrate impact of wheat blast
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)18.02.19-
Food security
Wheat blast is a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease that threatens food safety and security…
Read more -
-
Water security for sustainable dryland development
IWMI18.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
-
Food security
The search for options to boost water productivity…
Read more -
-
Trees nurture nutrition
CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry18.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
Read more -
-
‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.02.19-
Food security
-
Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
Read more -
-
The critical and complex need to address food safety in Africa
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.02.19-
Food security
-
Health
Solving the health problems of foodborne disease in Africa is only part of the food…
Read more -
-
Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)11.02.19-
Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
Read more -
-
The 2018 Farm Bill is good news for international agricultural development
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.02.19-
Food security
The December passage of the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill is good news for professionals who develop and…
Read more -
-
There’s a new goal post for agriculture: It’s nutrition.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
This blog post is the first in a 3-part series accompanying the release of the…
Read more -
-
Is our global food system broken?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)08.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
Read more -
-
Use of Targeted Genome Editing
CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC)07.02.19-
Food security
-
Nutrition
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
Read more -
-
In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.02.19-
Food security
The villages of Barbote and Pyang are located in neighboring districts in the far west…
Read more -
-
Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)05.02.19-
Environmental health
-
Food security
Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. The…
Read more -