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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate 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
09.02.21Extreme 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
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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
25.01.21-
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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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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
18.12.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Children’s TV series promotes gender equality and fish-based nutrition in Bangladesh
22.02.21-
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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A new children’s TV series promoting fish-based nutrition, gender equality, and women’s involvem…
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FAO declaration supports sustainable aquatic food systems
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Over 190 countries made a formal commitment to sustainable and inclusive aquatic food systems at…
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Inland fisheries critical for nourishing young children in sub-Saharan Africa, study reveals
22.02.21-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Inland fisheries are critical to supplying children with the nutritious, diverse diets required for …
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An agri-food system innovation in Kenya? Will smallholders be the winners?
22.02.21Major food policy changes are underway in Kenya that could mean that sorghum and millets…
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Well-designed strategy drives pearl millet mainstreaming nutrition initiative
22.02.21A well-designed strategy currently being implemented to develop pearl millet lines that are both hig…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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1.15 Million Children, 122,472 communities, 57 countries, 30 years: New dataset combines Demographic Health Surveys with geographic information systems
21.02.21-
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Nutrition
BY ZHE GUO, WAHID QUABILI, LIANGZHI YOU AND DEREK HEADEY Research on the linkages between…
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A4NH releases strategic briefs highlighting key program achievements, lessons learned
20.02.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Throughout its 11-year history, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (…
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2021 Summit of the Americas: At a precarious moment, an opportunity for a bold regional agenda
19.02.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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In the second half of this year, the United States will host the Summit of…
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Build trust, build lives…
19.02.21-
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“Farmers thought we were coming to steal their money!” Microfinance specialist Lamine Sountoura …
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: How an upland watershed got its groundwater back
19.02.21-
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The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Catalyst training: “From unconscious bias to inclusive leadership"
18.02.21Unconscious bias is hardwired into humans but, unless controlled, can negatively impact the working …
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Remembering the life and legacy of Sanjaya Rajaram
18.02.21With great sorrow, we report the passing of Sanjaya Rajaram, former Wheat Program director and…
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Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The pressure to achieve global food security demands that we rethink current production systems and…
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Policy seminar: Rebuilding food and agricultural research institutions in a post-pandemic world
16.02.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY HONOR DEARLOVE The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges to publicly-funded food and agricult…
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Young Africa Works-IITA commences multilocation training for 40,000 youth
16.02.21The Young Africa Works-IITA project commenced the first cohort of its training program in Lagos,…
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Banana breeding project successfully implements modern track and trace system
16.02.21Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice…
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CGIAR Becomes an Official IATI Publisher
16.02.21This month, CGIAR achieved a major milestone by publishing an initial set of grants data to…
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