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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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The Economist: Farmers Have Stayed Ahead of Climate Change so far; with Help (including from CGIAR) They may Continue to
08.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Economist spotlights work enabling farmers to adapt to climate change in its pre-COP27 report…
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Launch of the Seed Revolving Fund, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion Initiative in Tanzania
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
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
16.02.20-
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
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
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
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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Food security
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 adaptation & mitigation
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 adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The theme for this year’s World Food Day is “Our actions are our future –…
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