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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
13.12.21-
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
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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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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MEDIA RELEASE | Understanding the game: new network investigates how games can create sustainable land management
27.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya, 27 July 2020 — The way water, forests and people interact is complex but…
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MEDIA RELEASE| IFAD, Mars and ICRAF invest in sustainable farming research and development in Indonesia and the Philippines
16.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nairobi, Kenya, 16 July 2020— The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mars…
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Joint UN-CGIAR assessment explains how animal-to-human pandemics like COVID-19 occur and how to prevent them in future
11.07.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Cover of the new ILRI-UNEP zoonoses report and a graphic representation of the virus causing…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Looking for natural solutions to boost feed-efficiency in animal husbandry
08.07.20-
Nutrition
Nairobi, Kenya, 8 July 2020 — More than 60% of protein fed to ruminant animals is…
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We could become more resilient to future pandemics by protecting nature
07.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The world’s wetlands could generate sustainable, agricultural livelihoods, which in turn contribut…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Nature’s plural values: who benefits and has a say?
07.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Nairobi, Kenya, 7 July 2020 — Ten global research teams compared their findings of how Nature is…
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MEDIA RELEASE: A new map of agroforestry and ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific
02.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya, 02 July 2020 — A team of scientists have mapped for the first time the researc…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Novel species of fungi discovered on bat carcasses in China
30.06.20-
Health
Nairobi, Kenya, 30 June 2020 — A subterranean expedition conducted by researchers at World Agrof…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Seeking the host of 2022 World Congress on Agroforestry
24.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nairobi, Kenya, 24 June 2020 — The International Union for Agroforestry (IUAF) in collaboration w…
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Scientists stress need, amid COVID-19, to maintain focus on everyday zoonotic diseases of the world’s poor
15.06.20-
Health
James Akoko, ILRI Animal Health Assistant with the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project,…
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FOOD SAFETY: A point of departure for preventing diseases originating in the world’s food systems
12.06.20-
Health
Food plate in Vietnam (photo credit: CGIAR/Chris de Bode). To mark World Food Safety Day…
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By working together, humanity will eventually weather the COVID-19 crisis
11.06.20-
Food security
The global coronavirus pandemic is exposing vulnerabilities in many of the systems we normally take…
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The new MOPAN report includes some old news about CGIAR
04.06.20-
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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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An international network of funders has just released its first assessment of CGIAR, the world’s…
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COVID-19 makes a strong case for urban farming
28.05.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Eastern Africa, supporting urban and peri-urban farming would help respond to the devastating eff…
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WEBINAR - Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive, resilient and safe future
27.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of our economies to shocks, and it has laid bare…
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Communities managing forests: a tale of prophets, profits, prove it
26.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nairobi, Kenya, 26 May 2020 – Today, more than 7 billion humans share the planet with…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Mapping agroforestry and trees outside forest in India
13.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
New Delhi, India, 13 May 2020 — A new book, Mapping agroforestry and trees outside forest, was…
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Poor communities: Ground zero for emerging animal-to-human diseases—and for the existential crises they beget
12.05.20-
Health
Typical household compound in a village in Busia, western Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Charlie Pye-Smit…
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