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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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Planting hope: the Syrian who risked her life to save virus-resistant super-seeds – Guardian UK
18.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
05.03.20-
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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
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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When science and industry synergize to develop better crops
25.02.20Setting priorities for research in hybrid pearl millet, sorghum and pigeonpea in India Over 70…
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
25.02.20A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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What’s next for CGIAR?
20.02.20-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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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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