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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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Land restoration in Africa: practical perspectives from the Regreening Africa Programme
11.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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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Food security
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-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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-
Food security
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Health
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-
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 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
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
09.03.20-
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
08.03.20-
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
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?
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
25.02.20Hyderabad, 14 February 2020: Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with…
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