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Bill Gates Highlights Impact of CGIAR: Feeding our Future
10.07.19- Climate
- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future What’s…
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Inequality, Agriculture and Climate Change: From a Vicious to a Virtuous Circle
02.07.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Genomics
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new urgency is being felt on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking, there are protests…
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Better data can help close the global gender gap
03.04.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
At the current pace of change, it is going to take us over a century…
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A world where livestock are part of the solution—Ethiopia state minister
08.02.19- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopian girl drinking milk produced by the family cow (photo credit: Africa Rising). The recent…
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From obese to starving, nutrition crisis prompts SOS call for new approach
11.01.19- Nutrition
Calls are being made for a new approach in 2019 to how food is produced…
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We need more magic beans to help us offset the effects of climate change
09.01.19- Climate
You may think magic beans belong in fairy tales. But when scientist Daniel Debouck went…
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As water systems fail across South Africa, rural communities look to self-supply
23.07.19- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
An Op-ed originally published on the Daily Maverick: About half of municipal wastewater and water…
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Sam Thevasagayam of the Gates Foundation receives the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ 2019 International Award
12.07.19- Genomics
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sam Thevasagayam, deputy director for global development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation …
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GatesNotes.com: You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future
11.07.19- Climate
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It’s too bad that more people don’t know about CGIAR. Their work to feed our…
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Bill Gates Highlights Impact of CGIAR: Feeding our Future
10.07.19- Climate
- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future What’s…
Read more-
Bill Gates highlights impact of CIMMYT’s drought-tolerant maize
09.07.19- Climate
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a new blog post and video, Bill Gates discusses the essential role the CGIAR…
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Inequality, Agriculture and Climate Change: From a Vicious to a Virtuous Circle
02.07.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Genomics
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new urgency is being felt on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking, there are protests…
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Six investments to help family farmers thrive in the next decade
06.06.19- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Family farmers produce more than 80% of the world’s food, but often have the least…
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Land restoration bringing food security to Ethiopia: Afro FM
27.05.19- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Rapid population increase, low vegetation cover, soil loss and erosion - all contributing to the…
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Plant breeding for the future—the time is now
15.04.19- Climate
Think about the last food you ate. Maybe it was a meal or maybe you’re…
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Better data can help close the global gender gap
03.04.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
At the current pace of change, it is going to take us over a century…
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The many gifts of livestock—A view from Kenya
17.03.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishe…
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Raising the steaks
15.03.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new article in African Business Magazine provides a comprehensive overview of the risks and…
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Drug resistance could make millions of people poorer
15.03.19- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
As reported this week by Jacqueline Ogada, a journalist at SciDevNet, the director general of…
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Can technology double farmer incomes and tackle climate change?
11.03.19- Climate
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Originally published as on Op-ed on Impaktar. Forty years since India gained independence, what ha…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019
09.03.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
An interview with Gareth Johnstone, WorldFish Director General, on what we are doing to ‘think…
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A world where livestock are part of the solution—Ethiopia state minister
08.02.19- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopian girl drinking milk produced by the family cow (photo credit: Africa Rising). The recent…
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New journal article calls for responsible use of herbicides by rice farmers in Africa
29.01.19- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new publication, led by experts from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI, University of Greenwi…
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From obese to starving, nutrition crisis prompts SOS call for new approach
11.01.19- Nutrition
Calls are being made for a new approach in 2019 to how food is produced…
Read more-