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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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CGIAR EMD Ismahane Elouafi discusses food security and climate solutions on Agro América
04.10.24Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR's Executive Managing Director, joins Gabriel Estrela on this week’s episod…
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Food security leader calls for women's voices in convenings
04.10.24From aspiring fighter pilot to a powerful food systems leader, Ismahane Elouafi impacts the globe…
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The Nation: Why we need to invest in sustainable food systems
24.06.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine going to your local market and finding empty shelves or skyrocketing prices for basic…
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Unleashing Africa’s Agricultural Potential is Key to Food Security
30.11.22-
Food security
Africa is in a race against time on food security and the stakes could not…
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Claudia Sadoff on Transforming Food Systems - Devex COPcast
18.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As part of a series of COP27 podcasts, CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Claudia Sadoff, sat down…
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Guiding farmers to safer use of pesticides in Rwanda and Burundi
08.08.19-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Food security
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Gender equality
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
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Environmental health
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 adaptation & mitigation
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 adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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-
Environmental health
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
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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-
Food security
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Nutrition
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-
Food security
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 adaptation & mitigation
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-
Gender equality
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-
Environmental health
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 adaptation & mitigation
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
17.07.19Amid 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-
Food security
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Gender equality
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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Governing Myanmar’s inland fisheries: looking for the right balance
17.07.19With an extraordinary diversity of ecosystems and fish species, Myanmar ranks among the top-ten fish…
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