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IITA working on Africa’s first genome edited banana
13.09.19The new frontier for agricultural innovation is genome editing and IITA is already leading the…
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Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
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To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
10.09.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
02.07.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
02.07.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries
19.06.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat,…
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Delayed Pregnancy, Reduced Open Defecation key factors in Reducing Anemia Among Indian Women
14.06.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Washington, D.C.: Reduction of open-defecation in villages, increased age at pregnancy, and women’…
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Gender takes center stage at European Development Days
14.06.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
BY SARA GUSTAFSON AND HAZEL MALAPIT If we want to eradicate poverty, we need gender equality.…
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Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
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Do men and women benefit equally from technology adoption? New paper explores
18.05.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
14.05.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in…
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Transfer programs, child nutrition, and intimate partner violence
11.05.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for…
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Gender research in PIM: rural transformation, productivity, and women’s empowerment
04.05.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In this video, Cheryl Doss, leader of our “Cross-cutting Gender Research and Coordination” flags…
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Graça Machel wins this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development
02.05.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Graça Machel, winner of this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development (photo credit: World P…
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New Index: Pro-WEAI Measures Women’s Empowerment, Agency, and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
26.04.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Pro-WEAI measures women’s empowerment and inclusion at the project level Helps projects to identif…
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Youth migration and labor constraints in African agrarian households
18.04.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The new paper investigates how youth migration in Ethiopia and Malawi affects household labor, hired…
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In REDD+ villages, women say their wellbeing has declined
17.04.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Climate change interventions in forest communities are still not getting it right when it comes…
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Two women scientists to receive ICRISATs highest scientific award
17.04.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Dr Mamta Sharma and Dr Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur are joint recipients of the Doreen Margaret Mashler…
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