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How to prevent food from becoming a weapon of war
25.05.22-
Food security
The conflict in Ukraine has exposed the fragile geopolitics that underpin global food systems, threa…
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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
13.12.21-
Nutrition
While enough food is produced to feed everyone 1.5 times over, poor diets continue to hold…
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Why COP26 is the moment to double down on investment for agricultural research
01.11.21The links between global food systems, food security and climate change have never been more…
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COP26: Funding Innovation is Crucial for Strengthening Climate-Stressed Food Systems
25.10.21Today’s agrifood systems no longer simply feed people. They must also provide nutrition, promote l…
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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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Poor communities: Ground zero for emerging animal-to-human diseases—and for the existential crises they beget
12.05.20-
Health
Typical household compound in a village in Busia, western Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Charlie Pye-Smit…
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Land restoration in Africa: practical perspectives from the Regreening Africa Programme
11.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nairobi, Kenya. 11 May 2020 — Africa is faced with potentially devastating challenges owing to th…
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How much food is actually lost and wasted? The role of careful measurement
06.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
In the time of crisis such as the world is living through now, it is…
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COVID-19: Flattening the food insecurity curve
06.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must…
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Footprint for a healthy planet
05.05.20-
Food security
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as COVID-19, the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus, and Ebol…
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IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
05.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
CGIAR Research Centers commend Bangladesh’s response to contain Covid-19 spread, call for ensuring…
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COVID-19 highlights need to boost resilience of Africa’s rural poor
04.05.20-
Food security
Apart from the novel coronavirus’ tragic toll in terms of human health and lives lost,…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
04.05.20-
Food security
Op-Ed from the Chair of the CGIAR WLE-supported Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensificat…
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Noted plant health researcher to lead ICRISAT as Director General
30.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Dr Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes, a well-known plant health expert and leader in international agricul…
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Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
28.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NEHA KUMAR, TIA PALERMO, AMBER PETERMAN AND SHALINI ROY The COVID-19 pandemi…
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When climate and Covid-19 collide: Ten steps to prepare South Asia
28.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As if managing the evolving coronavirus pandemic is not enough, countries in South Asia are…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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Global Hunger and Health Crises Exposed by the Coronavirus Pandemic
24.04.20In his recent opinion editorial published in The Telegraph, CGIAR System Organization’s Executive …
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IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
22.04.20-
Food security
World’s leading food security think-tank and research centres have recommended Bangladesh to ensur…
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FTA’s new Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Agenda and Action Plan 2020-2021
22.04.20A Revised Research Agenda and Action Plan 2020-2021 for FTA on Gender Equality and Social…
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Planting hope: the Syrian who risked her life to save virus-resistant super-seeds – Guardian UK
18.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Plant virologist Dr Safaa Kumari discovered seeds that could safeguard food security in the region.…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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