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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-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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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-
Nutrition
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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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We could become more resilient to future pandemics by protecting nature
07.07.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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-
Genomics
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Securing PUBLIC 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
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-
Securing PUBLIC 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-
Securing PUBLIC 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-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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
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
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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Climate
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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