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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
CGIAR30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
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Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
CGIAR18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
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Opinion: If COP 27 Ignores Farmers, Global Food Security will Suffer
CGIAR15.11.22We are already living in a world that is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times,…
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CGIAR Welcomes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1.4 Billion Pledge to Climate Adaptation
CGIAR10.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-income country leaders gathered at COP27 have repeatedly called for climate finance to support t…
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CGIAR Country, Region and Funding Partners Signal Strong Support for Integration
CGIAR09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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The Economist: Farmers Have Stayed Ahead of Climate Change so far; with Help (including from CGIAR) They may Continue to
CGIAR08.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Economist spotlights work enabling farmers to adapt to climate change in its pre-COP27 report…
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U.S. farmers pursue soybean profits, shrug at tight wheat stocks (Successful Farming)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)01.04.22American farmers say they will plant more soybeans — a record 91 million acres —…
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Food security worries spark biofuel debate (The Western Producer)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)31.03.22Burning crops while millions can’t afford food is an uncomfortable situation for wealthy countries…
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Multiple breadbasket failures: Nations must address looming food emergencies
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)28.03.22The Ukrainian flag famously represents the country’s golden wheat fields under a clear blue sky.…
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How the Ukraine war is driving up food and energy prices for the world (World Economic Forum)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)25.03.22Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having big, and potentially long-lasting impacts on the global sup…
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A food crisis was brewing even before the Ukraine war – but taking these three steps could help the most vulnerable
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.03.22Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two…
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Broken bread — avert global wheat crisis caused by invasion of Ukraine
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)22.03.22Six boxes of wheat seed sit in our cold store. This is the first time…
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How war in global breadbasket threatens food security everywhere
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)21.03.22When Ukraine banned the export of wheat this month and started scattering land mines in…
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Food Is Just as Vital as Oil to National Security
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)07.03.22While Putin’s war in Ukraine is delivering shocks to the energy market and driving up…
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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
CGIAR13.12.21-
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
CGIAR01.11.21The 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
CGIAR25.10.21Today’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
CGIAR20.10.21With 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
CGIAR19.10.21Mere weeks from now, commitments made at a United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York will…
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Greenhouse technologies used to develop resilient maize and wheat varieties
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)30.08.21At CIMMYT’s experimental station in Toluca, Mexico, Ridder’s greenhouse technologies are used to…
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How scientists are preparing wheat for climate change
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As extreme weather conditions increasingly threaten the global wheat supply, CIMMYT head of wheat p…
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Improving sweetpotatoes for larger markets in Uganda
International Potato Center (CIP)03.07.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bernard Yada is a sweetpotato breeder with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organiz…
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Reflections on One Health and Food Systems approaches--Op-ed by Hung Nguyen
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)06.06.21-
Food security
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Health
Dr. Hung Nguyen is the co-leader of Animal and Human Health Program at ILRI and…
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Hurting or helping? Why we need gender and food systems research
CGIAR GENDER Platform26.05.21-
Gender equality
This op-ed was first published by Devex on May 26, 2021. Well-intended efforts are being…
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