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Kanayo Nwanze to bring voice of One CGIAR to UN Food Systems Summit
07.04.20-
Sustainable Development Goals
Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze will represent a unified CGIAR at next year’s United Nations Food…
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For a food system at risk, women are key yet often overlooked
08.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declara…
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What’s next for CGIAR?
20.02.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Super beans for a climate-stressed world
16.02.20-
Climate
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Genomics
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Nutrition
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, beans are a delicious, nutritious and…
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Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes
30.12.19Food systems can be effectively transformed by identifying drivers of food choice and factors influe…
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Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
23.09.19-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond…
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Facilitating training programs for improving crop-livestock systems in Niger
03.02.20Training programs on silage making, animal health and laboratory management were held in Niger for…
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Interdisciplinary research key to making India’s Green Revolution sustainable
27.01.20Around a hundred scientists from varied disciplines, who gathered to discuss an India-UK joint resea…
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Sorghum goes pop: Success stories from a Nigerian initiative
27.01.20Have you heard of ‘pop’ sorghum or ‘diet’ sorghum flour? If you haven’t, you are…
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The Future of Food – Food Substitute Pills
21.01.20-
Biodiversity
Seed banks, like the one at CIMMYT’s headquarters in Mexico, are part of planning for…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
20.01.20Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
16.01.20If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
13.01.20CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya
09.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) have found modest, yet statistically significant, improv…
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Dynamic modelling to help improve farm output
06.01.20ICRISAT and ICAR scientists developing System Dynamics Modelling for Indian agriculture Can policy m…
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Short and mid-early pigeonpea varieties steal the show
30.12.19Pigeonpea Network Group (Asia) Workshop-cum-Field Day 2019 Pigeonpea researchers from across Asia ha…
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Understanding food systems transitions is key to achieve nutritional outcomes
30.12.19Food systems can be effectively transformed by identifying drivers of food choice and factors influe…
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MEDIA RELEASE | Reforestation may not be sufficient for fighting climate change
22.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Reforestation may not be sufficient for fighting climate change Could the E…
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AfricaRice commits to global effort towards healthy diets on World Food Day 2019
16.10.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The theme for this year’s World Food Day is “Our actions are our future –…
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Donors commit USD790m to help smallholder farmers cope with climate change; Global Commission on Adaptation calls for doubling of investments in CGIAR
26.09.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Plate with Cutlery and a Kettle, by Vincent van Gogh. Food systems face unprecedented challenges…
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Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
23.09.19-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond…
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ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries
23.09.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries”https://t.co/NcN5tgiGTT — Susan MacMi…
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‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries
18.09.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
All paintings by Olivia Pendergast, an American artist living and working in Kenya. This opinion…
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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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