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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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Global Coalition Promises More than $650 Million to Accelerate CGIAR Efforts to Help 300 Million Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Climate Change
23.09.19-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With only 11 growing seasons left to achieve 2030 goal to eliminate hunger, leaders respond…
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ILRI opinion piece in the Financial Times on the place of ‘alt-meats’ (aka ‘meat without feet’) in poorer countries
23.09.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
“‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries”https://t.co/NcN5tgiGTT — Susan MacMi…
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‘Alt meats’ are not the answer for poorer countries
18.09.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
All paintings by Olivia Pendergast, an American artist living and working in Kenya. This opinion…
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Combating hunger: Switzerland makes renewed contribution to CGIAR
13.09.19Climate change, land degradation and water scarcity increasingly affect agricultural production and …
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To adapt to climate change, double CGIAR research: Report
10.09.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As the global food system comes under increasing pressure, research is needed to boost productivity,…
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As monsoon death toll climbs across South Asia, new maps show damage to crops could be severe
30.07.19-
Climate
Published on Agrilinks: Over 200 people are dead and millions affected due to the recent…
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Investing in soil health key to closing the yield gaps
30.07.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Originally published on Spore Magazine. Even without climate change, there is an enormous challeng…
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A ‘caloric calculus’ with big consequences—healthy foods are expensive in poor countries, unhealthy foods cheap in rich countries—New IFPRI paper
27.07.19-
Nutrition
Eggs and other nutrient-dense foods are expensive in poor countries, leading to child stunting, whil…
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The new challenges of wheat improvement
26.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In the Green Revolution era, the focus for wheat breeders was on boosting yields to…
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Scientist Bekele Abeyo details research in Africa with BBC
26.07.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Most African countries have good potential for boosting wheat production if they are supported with…
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As water systems fail across South Africa, rural communities look to self-supply
23.07.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
An Op-ed originally published on the Daily Maverick: About half of municipal wastewater and water…
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Sam Thevasagayam of the Gates Foundation receives the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ 2019 International Award
12.07.19-
Genomics
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Sam Thevasagayam, deputy director for global development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation …
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GatesNotes.com: You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future
11.07.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It’s too bad that more people don’t know about CGIAR. Their work to feed our…
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Bill Gates Highlights Impact of CGIAR: Feeding our Future
10.07.19-
Climate
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
You’ve probably never heard of CGIAR, but they are essential to feeding our future What’s…
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Bill Gates highlights impact of CIMMYT’s drought-tolerant maize
09.07.19-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In a new blog post and video, Bill Gates discusses the essential role the CGIAR…
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Inequality, Agriculture and Climate Change: From a Vicious to a Virtuous Circle
02.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Genomics
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new urgency is being felt on climate change. Schoolchildren are striking, there are protests…
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Six investments to help family farmers thrive in the next decade
06.06.19-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Family farmers produce more than 80% of the world’s food, but often have the least…
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BOOK LAUNCH: Towards low-emission landscapes in Viet Nam
05.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
For immediate release Bogor, Indonesia, 21 March 2019— A new book celebrates ten years of contr…
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