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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
13.12.21-
Nutrition
While enough food is produced to feed everyone 1.5 times over, poor diets continue to hold…
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Why COP26 is the moment to double down on investment for agricultural research
01.11.21The links between global food systems, food security and climate change have never been more…
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COP26: Funding Innovation is Crucial for Strengthening Climate-Stressed Food Systems
25.10.21Today’s agrifood systems no longer simply feed people. They must also provide nutrition, promote l…
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Smallholder Farmers Provide the Key to Tackling the Climate Crisis
20.10.21With less than 10 years left to meet the targets set in the Paris Climate…
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Climate Change: How Innovative Plant Breeding Can Help Feed The World, Nurture The Planet
19.10.21Mere weeks from now, commitments made at a United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York will…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Food security
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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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-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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Nixtamalization: An ingenious solution for healthier maize-based diets
21.12.20-
Nutrition
Some 500 years ago — in the wake of the cataclysmic encounter between European powers…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Food security
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Health
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-
Health
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Nutrition
Vaccines are harder to deliver and potentially less effective at stimulating an immune response in…
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USAID Global Waters: Strengthening Drought Monitoring Across the Middle East and North Africa
25.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Despite the troublesome outlook, an innovative initiative launched in mid-2018 is increasing the cap…
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New study: CGIAR innovations reach nearly 80% of Ethiopia’s rural households
12.11.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agri…
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Global Environment Facility : Let’s not wash our hands of water security
29.10.20-
Health
Access to clean water for washing hands has been the first line of defense during…
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CGIAR focus on gene editing crops for a food and income secure future
16.10.20-
Health
Speaking during the second webinar of the One CGIAR Global Series on Gene Editing, lead…
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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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Ending Global Hunger Need Not Cost the Earth – If We Invest Now
15.10.20This year should have been a milestone for global climate action, setting out the road…
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CGIAR welcomes Nobel recognition of UN World Food Programme
14.10.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
CGIAR has joined the global community in congratulating the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP…
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Polio Provides the Roadmap for Tackling Pandemic and Food Security
11.09.20-
Food security
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Health
"A tiny microbe has humbled us all – and yet has also provided us with…
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Ivan Morrison, of the University of Edinburgh, formerly of ILRAD, awarded the inaugural Plowright Prize for his lifelong research towards a vaccine for East Coast fever
11.09.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
RCVS Knowledge, the charity partner of the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, has awarded…
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A message to the next generation: This is your opportunity. Make sure your voices are heard.
02.09.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 The…
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The seven deadly drivers of zoonotic disease pandemics
17.08.20-
Health
Three-quarters of emerging illnesses come from animals and a new report identifies climate change as…
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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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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-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya, 5 August 2020 — Restoration of degraded forests and landscapes is becoming increa…
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