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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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China’s demand for food a boon for Southeast Asian exporters (China Daily)
27.06.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
China Daily published a news report on the recent 2018 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) launch in…
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Study estimates true value of ladybeetle as biocontrol (SciDev)
22.06.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Science Development Network published an article summarizing findings of an IFPRI study on t…
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The transformative power of giving young women cash (Quartz)
22.06.18- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Quartz published a report on the impact of cash transfer programs, particularly their influence on…
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Lawmaker Proposes P1 Carbon Tax on Power Use (Philippine Star)
19.06.18- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
The Phillippine Star published an article on Representative Luis Raymund Villafuerte’s proposal…
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Is There an Algorithm to End World Hunger? (Food Tank)
15.06.18- Big data
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Every day, thousands of researchers and scientists are collecting massive amounts of data about agri…
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Study finds supermarket shopping significantly increases body mass index in Kenya (African News Agency)
14.06.18- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
African News Agency published a report on a recent IFPRI research by Senior Research Fellow, Oliv…
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Less open defecation key factor in reducing anemia among Indian women (The Tribune)
14.06.18- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
India’s The Tribune reported on a recent IFPRI research by Associate Research Fellow, Samuel Sc…
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Tight borders threatening food security - 2018 Global Food Policy Report (My Joy)
12.06.18- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ghana's My Joy published a report discussing the relationship between migration and food security,…
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World Agriculture Day: Institute seeks review of curricula in agricultural universities (Vanguard)
12.06.18- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In celebration of World Agriculture Day, (June 11), Nigerian newspaper Vanguard published a report…
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Chasing receding water tables: How Indian farmers are digging themselves into a deeper hole (The Financial Express)
11.06.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Financial Express published an op-ed authored by IFPRI research fellow Avinash Kishore on o…
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G7 can tackle five priorities with one investment: agricultural research
08.06.18- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
This week the representatives of the world’s most advanced economies grapple with complex challeng…
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Australia’s responsibility to ocean health doesn’t end with the Great Barrier Reef
07.06.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Earlier this year, a record-breaking investment to protect the Great Barrier Reef was announced, an…
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Legumes for poverty alleviation, nutrition security and sustainable development
05.06.18- Big data
- Nutrition
Recommendations to improve farmers’ incomes through sustainable production and marketing of legume…
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Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘the single biggest way’ to harm poor livestock herders
05.06.18- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Below are excerpts of a response to a new livestock report made by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, a…
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Meat, milk, eggs can make a big difference in the first 1,000 days of life in low-income countries—New report
04.06.18- Nutrition
Cover of a new report,The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000…
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Why milk, meat and eggs can make a big difference to the world’s most nutritionally vulnerable people
04.06.18- Nutrition
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Illustrations by (left to right): Thomas Slater, Fideli Sundqvist and Brian Cairns. Opinion piece b…
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New studies provide the first accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from East African livestock
03.06.18- Climate
ILRI scientist John Goopy describes ILRI’s Mazingira Centre research on livestock and greenhouse g…
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Does growth in pulses output mean India has reached self-sufficiency? (The Indian Express)
31.05.18- Nutrition
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Indian Express reported on IFPRI’s research on pulses in India assessing if India has reache…
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