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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-
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
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Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Good Nutrition is Crucial for the Coronavirus Vaccine to Work Effectively
26.11.20-
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Vaccines are harder to deliver and potentially less effective at stimulating an immune response in…
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Are Food Systems ‘Broken’ – or Just Out of Sync?
16.10.20Our food systems are not broken; they are out of sync with what we need…
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MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists map land suitable for agroforestry in South Asia
21.05.20-
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Nairobi, Kenya, 21 May 2020 — Scientists have analyzed remote-sensing global data sets and create…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Mapping agroforestry and trees outside forest in India
13.05.20-
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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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Typical household compound in a village in Busia, western Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Charlie Pye-Smit…
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Land restoration in Africa: practical perspectives from the Regreening Africa Programme
11.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Nairobi, Kenya. 11 May 2020 — Africa is faced with potentially devastating challenges owing to th…
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COVID-19 highlights need to boost resilience of Africa’s rural poor
04.05.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Apart from the novel coronavirus’ tragic toll in terms of human health and lives lost,…
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Global Hunger and Health Crises Exposed by the Coronavirus Pandemic
24.04.20In his recent opinion editorial published in The Telegraph, CGIAR System Organization’s Executive …
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IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
22.04.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
World’s leading food security think-tank and research centres have recommended Bangladesh to ensur…
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Planting hope: the Syrian who risked her life to save virus-resistant super-seeds – Guardian UK
18.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Plant virologist Dr Safaa Kumari discovered seeds that could safeguard food security in the region.…
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Lockdown: Centre, States Helped Agricultural Sector, But A Lot Yet To Be Done To Ensure Growth
16.04.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Hot cows, less milk in China
15.04.20Nairobi, Kenya. 15 April 2020 — There are clear signs that growth in milk production in China…
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Vouchers instead of food: an analysis by Michael Hauser
15.04.20-
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COVID-19: How citizen-led social protection could help to cushion food systems in informal settleme…
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Kanayo Nwanze to bring voice of One CGIAR to UN Food Systems Summit
07.04.20Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze will represent a unified CGIAR at next year’s United Nations Food…
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Food—a ‘hyper-local issue’—needs to keep MOVING, ‘from farm to fork’, says the World Bank’s Juergen Voegele
06.04.20-
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Pablo Picasso, The Soup, detail, 1902–1903. Keep food moving, from farm to fork, in a…
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Thomson Reuters: Coronavirus – wake-up call to ensure water and sanitation for all
29.03.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Today, many people lack access to the most basic weapons to shield themselves from COVID-19:…
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SciDev: Tap big data to fight floods and droughts in Africa
23.03.20-
Climate
A satellite imagery platform called Digital Earth Africa has previously focussed on land resources s…
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What’s next for CGIAR
13.03.20-
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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
09.03.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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
08.03.20-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declara…
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