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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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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
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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Hotter world threatens the breadbasket of the US (Financial Times)
10.12.18-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Financial Times published a news article about the continued rise in temperatures and how climate …
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Report: S-E Asia grappling with stunted kids, anaemia (The Strait Times)
30.11.18-
Nutrition
The Straits Times wrote a piece about the 2018 Global Nutrition Report, in which it detailed the…
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Nienke Beintema: Importance of Viable Global Research Systems (FAO YouTube)
30.11.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The Food and Agriculture Organization interviewed Nienke Beintema, Program Head of IFPRI’s Agricu…
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Proposed need for additional tax for meat to prevent cancer (Tribun News)
30.11.18-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Tribun News published a news piece about governments' ideas of taxing red meat in response to fin…
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Purvi Mehta on Indian agriculture and nutrition—Addressing agricultural disconnects and food disparities
29.11.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Purvi Mehta, head of agriculture for Asia at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (photo…
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Press release: Urgent action needed to close the ‘livestock data gap’ to address poverty and food insecurity
27.11.18-
Big data
ILRI Asia Missing or poor livestock data limits development opportunities, according to a community …
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Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
26.11.18-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
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Why foodborne disease is becoming a development priority—and is a solvable problem
26.11.18-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The huge economic burden of foodborne disease is driven by public health not trade. This…
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How a sausage and bacon tax could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year (The Independent)
20.11.18-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The Independent wrote a news piece about the carcinogenic dangers of consuming red and processed m…
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Nutrition programmes, education help lowering anaemia in India (Business Standard)
20.11.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Business Standard released a news article about the need to lower rates of anemia among teenage gi…
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Gel to shield Indian farmers from pesticide overuse (SciDev)
20.11.18-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
SciDev published an article about the growing dangers from pesticide overuse among Indian farmers.…
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How a $50-a-year nutrition program cut domestic violence in Bangladesh (Vox)
12.11.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Vox published a news editorial about the ability of cash transfer initiatives to reduce rates of i…
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Why taxing meat could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year (World Economic Forum)
12.11.18-
Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The World Economic Forum published an article about the recent sentiment that consuming red and pr…
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Opinion: Where is the standardized measure of women's empowerment? (Devex)
12.11.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Devex published an op-ed by Associate Research Fellow Greg Seymour who detailed the recent surge…
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Cash transfers prevent intimate partner violence: Study (Business Standard)
12.11.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Business Standard published a news article about the preventative measures of cash transfers and b…
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Can A Woman's Rising Social Status Bring Down Rates Of Domestic Violence? (NPR)
12.11.18-
Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
NPR published a news feature on how improved economic status of women could reduce domestic violen…
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Africa are likely to experience growing demand for social protection (IPP Media)
05.11.18-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IPP Media published an article about the growing demand of social protection programs in Africa a…
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Half of Indian teenage girls underweight, anaemic; 4 in 10 defecate in open (Business Standard)
05.11.18-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Business Standard published an article examining a survey of teenage Indian girls regarding their…
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