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Bill Gates Highlights Impact of CGIAR: Feeding our Future
10.07.19- Climate
- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future What’s…
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Inequality, Agriculture and Climate Change: From a Vicious to a Virtuous Circle
02.07.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Genomics
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new urgency is being felt on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking, there are protests…
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Better data can help close the global gender gap
03.04.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
At the current pace of change, it is going to take us over a century…
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A world where livestock are part of the solution—Ethiopia state minister
08.02.19- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ethiopian girl drinking milk produced by the family cow (photo credit: Africa Rising). The recent…
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From obese to starving, nutrition crisis prompts SOS call for new approach
11.01.19- Nutrition
Calls are being made for a new approach in 2019 to how food is produced…
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We need more magic beans to help us offset the effects of climate change
09.01.19- Climate
You may think magic beans belong in fairy tales. But when scientist Daniel Debouck went…
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Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
09.10.18- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw …
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Top Washington institute to assist in Sri Lanka to formulate a food policy (Colombo Gazette)
01.10.18- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Colombo Gazette reported on a recent meeting between Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena…
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Why it is more profitable to invest money in agricultural R&D, roads and irrigation than on subsidies
21.09.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A book titled Supporting Indian Farms: the Smart Way that brings out the advantages of…
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FAO on the common but flawed comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and transport
19.09.18- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Graphic by FAO. Livestock experts Anne Mottet and Henning Steinfeld, of the Food and Agriculture…
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Africa's agriculture trade monitor report (CNBC)
11.09.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
CNBC Africa conducted a live interview with Research Fellow Dr. Getaw Tadesse Gebreyohanes about…
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Fixing Asia's Food System (The Economist)
10.09.18- Nutrition
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Cargill and The Economist outlined the necessary transformations to Asia's food system in order to…
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From discovery to delivery – the 45-year journey to improve nutrition
10.09.18- Climate
- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Nutrition
ICRISAT Annual Report 2017 focuses on R&D for nutrition across the agriculture value chain A…
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We're just learning how exposure to air pollution degrades our brains (Quartz)
06.09.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Quartz examined the findings by IFPRI researcher Xiaobo Zhang that argues impurities from indust…
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The debate on the retentions, from the political and the economic (Clarin)
06.09.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Clarin published an op-ed by Head of Latin American and Caribbean Program Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, …
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IWMI’s work in Tajikistan featured on BBC Persian News Channel
06.09.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) had a significant presence at the High-Level Con…
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Aid spending can help stabilise 'fragile' African countries (Financial Times)
05.09.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Financial Times included research from IFPRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization in an op…
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Researchers seek overhaul of ARCN (Vanguard)
05.09.18- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Vanguard quoted Senior Research Fellow and Head of Capacity Strengthening at IFPRI, Suresh Babu, in…
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Strategic Foresight Uses Big Data to Think Ahead
03.09.18- Big data
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farming can be a gamble. There are many variables that can determine success and some…
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Air pollution is making us dumber, study shows (CNN)
28.08.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
CNN has amplified data examined by IFPRI researcher Xiaobo Zhang in a news feature that argues…
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Milk consumption reduces childhood stunting in BD, says IFPRI study (Financial Express)
27.08.18- Nutrition
Bangladesh's Financial Express published a news feature detailing the low levels of per capita mil…
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Farmers cautiously optimistic about progress in NAFTA talks but not ready to celebrate (CNBC)
24.08.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
CNBC published a news feature on recent NAFTA negotiations between the United States, Mexico, and …
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Congo's maiden agro-industrial park isn't perfect, but it isn't a failure (DEVEX)
24.08.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Devex published an op-ed by IFPRI Senior Research Fellow John Ulimwengu, who detailed Congo's mov…
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Teff love: Ethiopia's staple crop requires a big push (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
22.08.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Thomson Reuters Foundation published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Bart Minten and Alemayehu Se…
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