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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
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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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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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-
Nutrition
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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| 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-
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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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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
17.02.20USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Super beans for a climate-stressed world
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Genomics
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For hundreds of millions of people around the world, beans are a delicious, nutritious and…
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Cowpea receives more research support
10.02.20Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), also known as black eyed pea or niebé, is a legume crop grown…
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African farmers helping to grow quality seed for ‘neglected’ crops
05.02.20BY CHRISTOPHER BENDANA Though Uganda has some of the lowest agricultural productivity in the world,…
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Facilitating training programs for improving crop-livestock systems in Niger
03.02.20Training programs on silage making, animal health and laboratory management were held in Niger for…
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Interdisciplinary research key to making India’s Green Revolution sustainable
27.01.20Around a hundred scientists from varied disciplines, who gathered to discuss an India-UK joint resea…
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Sorghum goes pop: Success stories from a Nigerian initiative
27.01.20Have you heard of ‘pop’ sorghum or ‘diet’ sorghum flour? If you haven’t, you are…
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The Future of Food – Food Substitute Pills
21.01.20-
Biodiversity
Seed banks, like the one at CIMMYT’s headquarters in Mexico, are part of planning for…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
20.01.20Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
16.01.20If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
13.01.20CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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