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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-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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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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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for maintaining “the genetic diversi…
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An urgent need to put forests on the global agenda
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Open letter From Marc Palahí, Director EFI, Robert Nasi, Director General CIFOR and Tony Simons,…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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Back from the brink of extinction
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
Long-term efforts to restore and conserve a collection of Israeli and Palestinian wheat landraces (I…
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Breeding future-ready crops: Incorporating key traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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Understanding Nagoya
19.08.19-
Biodiversity
The Nagoya Protocol provides concrete mechanisms for countries providing plant genetic resources to …
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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“We are receiving a free subsidy from nature, but it will not continue indefinitely” – Louis Verchot
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
“Many findings are important for us and for policy makers around the world. The report…
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Artificial intelligence helps banana growers protect the world’s most favorite fruit
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
Using artificial intelligence, scientists created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana diseases and …
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Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
09.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Using the genetic traits of a wild bean species, CIAT and the Crop Trust are…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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FEATURE: Why financing is tied to the future of a biodiverse planet
31.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
We will end the year 2019 without having completely achieved any of the Aichi Biodiversity…
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Linking local and global food systems for more healthy and sustainable communities
30.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Three new areas of investigation related to diets, nutrition and sustainability, starting with short…
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OPINION: Investing in soil health key to closing the yield gaps
30.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Even without climate change, there is an enormous challenge to meet the growing demand for…
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Could these crops save Peruvian forests?
29.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
As noted in a previous blog, a study conducted by CIAT confirms that cacao production…
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