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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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SciDev: Tap big data to fight floods and droughts in Africa
IWMI23.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A satellite imagery platform called Digital Earth Africa has previously focussed on land resources s…
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What’s next for CGIAR
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)13.03.20-
Food security
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Health
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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The Independent: Unless we empower women farmers, we may not have enough to feed the planet
IWMI09.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
In an opinion piece in The Independent, IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff says "Achieving greater…
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For a food system at risk, women are key yet often overlooked
CGIAR08.03.20-
Gender equality
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declara…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)05.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The increase and decrease of soil carbon depend on how it is assessed. Nairobi, Kenya,…
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MEDIA ADVISORY | ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry: What has been achieved?
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)27.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
JAKARTA (Feb. 26, 2020) – Throughout Southeast Asia, new laws introduced to support social forestr…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.02.20Hyderabad, 14 February 2020: Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with…
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When science and industry synergize to develop better crops
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.02.20Setting priorities for research in hybrid pearl millet, sorghum and pigeonpea in India Over 70…
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)25.02.20A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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What’s next for CGIAR?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.02.20A Seed Revolving Fund initiative for sorghum and groundnut value chains has been launched in…
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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.02.20USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Super beans for a climate-stressed world
CGIAR16.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
For hundreds of millions of people around the world, beans are a delicious, nutritious and…
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Cowpea receives more research support
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)10.02.20Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), also known as black eyed pea or niebé, is a legume crop grown…
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African farmers helping to grow quality seed for ‘neglected’ crops
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)05.02.20BY CHRISTOPHER BENDANA Though Uganda has some of the lowest agricultural productivity in the world,…
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Facilitating training programs for improving crop-livestock systems in Niger
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)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
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)27.01.20Have you heard of ‘pop’ sorghum or ‘diet’ sorghum flour? If you haven’t, you are…
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