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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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Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers’ profits and cut pollution, new study shows
09.08.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Published in Science, the article provides evidence for national policies that block stubble burning…
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Guiding farmers to safer use of pesticides in Rwanda and Burundi
08.08.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
It’s hard to overstate the importance of root, tuber, and banana (RTB crops) for smallholder…
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‘One Nation One Ration Card’ can transform lives in India
06.08.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
On June 27, India Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced plans to move towards a system of…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
01.08.19- Biodiversity
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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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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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
30.07.19- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Ethiopia - This week Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prim…
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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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Could these crops save Peruvian forests?
29.07.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
As noted in a previous blog, a study conducted by CIAT confirms that cacao production…
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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
- 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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Timely, high-quality data are key for scaling up nutrition interventions
25.07.19- Nutrition
To turn a commitment to scale up nutrition into reality, we need high-quality actionable data…
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Terra-i user manual for monitoring land-cover changes is now available
24.07.19- Climate
Terra-i, a project by CIAT’s Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) and Agroecosystems and Sustainabl…
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Policy seminar: Rohingyas displaced to Bangladesh face an uncertain future
23.07.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
In 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into southeastern…
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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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Precision spreader for fertilizer set to change the agriculture scene in Nepal
19.07.19- Climate
Smallholder farmers in Nepal tend to apply fertilizer by hand, spreading it as they walk…
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Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
17.07.19- Genomics
Amid global efforts to intensify the nutritional value and scale of wheat production, scientists fro…
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DailyMaverick.co.za: As water systems fail across the country, rural communities look to self-supply
17.07.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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