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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Good Nutrition is Crucial for the Coronavirus Vaccine to Work Effectively
26.11.20-
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Vaccines are harder to deliver and potentially less effective at stimulating an immune response in…
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New Study: CGIAR Innovations Reach Nearly 80 Percent of Ethiopia’s Rural Households
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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How to ensure access to healthy diets for all: a clarion call for One CGIAR
30.10.20-
Nutrition
Guest blog by Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) At …
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Are Food Systems ‘Broken’ – or Just Out of Sync?
16.10.20Our food systems are not broken; they are out of sync with what we need…
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After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
17.11.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
17.11.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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“Relentless but stimulating”: Participants relish their GDI training
16.11.20Five months have now passed since the start of CGIAR’s eight-month training on Gender, Diversity…
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Genebanks - Leveraging Crop Diversity to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Nutritious
16.11.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Marcela Santaella’s highest priority is making sure that storage conditions are perfect at all tim…
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CGIAR Congratulates Ismahane Elouafi on her Appointment as Chief Scientist at FAO
16.11.20CGIAR announced today that Ismahane Elouafi has stepped down from the CGIAR System Board with…
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Saving water and time
13.11.20-
Climate
“I wonder why I never considered using drip irrigation for all these years,” says Michael…
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Rice-fish systems - back to the future
13.11.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
12.11.20-
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BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
12.11.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units organize Phytosanitary Awareness Week
11.11.20As part of measures to address the inadvertent spread of pests experienced with germplasm distributi…
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Measuring the true cost of food
11.11.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
10.11.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Banana hybrids can more than double the yield of best parents
10.11.20Hybrid crops are expected to have higher edible yields than their parents, but by how…
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Green shoots in fragile states and territories
09.11.20For decades, ICARDA scientists have provided CGIAR's agricultural expertise to fragile dryland state…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
09.11.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
09.11.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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New Study: CGIAR Innovations Reach Nearly 80 Percent of Ethiopia’s Rural Households
09.11.20An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricu…
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