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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
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
18.11.22-
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
15.11.22We 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
10.11.22-
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
09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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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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Greenhouse technologies used to develop resilient maize and wheat varieties
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
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
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
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
26.05.21-
Gender equality
This op-ed was first published by Devex on May 26, 2021. Well-intended efforts are being…
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How biodiversity conservation can help manage future pandemics — for plants and for humans
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
About a year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic fully seeped into our lives, The Counter…
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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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ILRI scientist named among climate science's top 100
03.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
"On some days I think I can see hopeful signs. On others, I think no,…
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Can we create a climate-resistant coffee in time?
29.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Matthew Reynolds, Distinguished Scientist and Head of Wheat Physiology at CIMMYT, talked to The Guar…
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New zinc-fortified wheat set for global expansion to combat malnutrition
19.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
Scientists at CIMMYT expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that…
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Seeding excellence through breeding excellence
05.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
When parts of Asia looked to be on the brink of famine in the 1960s,…
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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-
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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