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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Untapped: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
07.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste…
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Why empowering young people is key to ending global hunger and malnutrition
07.02.19-
Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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Use of Targeted Genome Editing
07.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
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Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
05.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
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Working with universities in developing countries
04.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“ The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role.” In this video interview, Nighisty…
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Repairing food systems failures: Policies, innovations and partnerships
01.02.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The current food system is failing us. We need to develop a more integrated systems perspective…
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Acceleration through collaboration: IFPRI side event at Davos 2019
01.02.19-
Nutrition
To accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition, we must work together with all key…
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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
01.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change
31.01.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change
31.01.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Clim…
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
28.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sehgal Foundation is aligning some big initiatives with the Smart Food Endowment Fund to help crea…
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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
28.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet…
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
26.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Illustrations by (left to right): Hiroko Yoshimoto, Ranganath Krishnamani, Yusuke Yonezu III. The …
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With huge variations in meat consumption, we’re ‘all in this existential crisis together’—Vox
25.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
‘Eating more plant-based burgers could help us avoid environmental catastrophe, according to a new…
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Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
23.01.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers can soon access finger millet varieties that not only withstand drought but are also…
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Should we eat red meat? Depends on who’s eating—New York Times
22.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Left to right: Figure of an under-nourished individual (by The Twin Project), illustration of red…
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Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
18.01.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
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Can governments promote homestead gardening at scale? The case of Ethiopia
17.01.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Eating fruits and vegetables can help ensure adequate nutrition and reduce the risk of heart…
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