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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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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
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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-
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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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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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Media Release| Researchers call for the Convention on Biological Diversity to focus on agricultural landscapes to aid recovery from COVID-19
14.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Nairobi, Kenya, 14 August 2020 — Researchers are urging the delegates of the 196 parties to…
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MEDIA RELEASE| New typology of agroforestry for guiding land restoration
05.08.20-
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Nairobi, Kenya, 5 August 2020 — Restoration of degraded forests and landscapes is becoming increa…
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MEDIA RELEASE | Understanding the game: new network investigates how games can create sustainable land management
27.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Nairobi, Kenya, 27 July 2020 — The way water, forests and people interact is complex but…
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MEDIA RELEASE| IFAD, Mars and ICRAF invest in sustainable farming research and development in Indonesia and the Philippines
16.07.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nairobi, Kenya, 16 July 2020— The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mars…
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Joint UN-CGIAR assessment explains how animal-to-human pandemics like COVID-19 occur and how to prevent them in future
11.07.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Cover of the new ILRI-UNEP zoonoses report and a graphic representation of the virus causing…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Looking for natural solutions to boost feed-efficiency in animal husbandry
08.07.20-
Genomics
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Nairobi, Kenya, 8 July 2020 — More than 60% of protein fed to ruminant animals is…
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We could become more resilient to future pandemics by protecting nature
07.07.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The world’s wetlands could generate sustainable, agricultural livelihoods, which in turn contribut…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Nature’s plural values: who benefits and has a say?
07.07.20-
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Nairobi, Kenya, 7 July 2020 — Ten global research teams compared their findings of how Nature is…
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MEDIA RELEASE: A new map of agroforestry and ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific
02.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Nairobi, Kenya, 02 July 2020 — A team of scientists have mapped for the first time the researc…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Novel species of fungi discovered on bat carcasses in China
30.06.20-
Genomics
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Nairobi, Kenya, 30 June 2020 — A subterranean expedition conducted by researchers at World Agrof…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Seeking the host of 2022 World Congress on Agroforestry
24.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Nairobi, Kenya, 24 June 2020 — The International Union for Agroforestry (IUAF) in collaboration w…
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Scientists stress need, amid COVID-19, to maintain focus on everyday zoonotic diseases of the world’s poor
15.06.20-
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James Akoko, ILRI Animal Health Assistant with the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project,…
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FOOD SAFETY: A point of departure for preventing diseases originating in the world’s food systems
12.06.20-
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Food plate in Vietnam (photo credit: CGIAR/Chris de Bode). To mark World Food Safety Day…
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By working together, humanity will eventually weather the COVID-19 crisis
11.06.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The global coronavirus pandemic is exposing vulnerabilities in many of the systems we normally take…
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The new MOPAN report includes some old news about CGIAR
04.06.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An international network of funders has just released its first assessment of CGIAR, the world’s…
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COVID-19 makes a strong case for urban farming
28.05.20-
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In Eastern Africa, supporting urban and peri-urban farming would help respond to the devastating eff…
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WEBINAR - Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive, resilient and safe future
27.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of our economies to shocks, and it has laid bare…
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Communities managing forests: a tale of prophets, profits, prove it
26.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Nairobi, Kenya, 26 May 2020 – Today, more than 7 billion humans share the planet with…
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