CGIAR Africa Regional Directors call for increased collaboration on the continent
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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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Opinion: If COP 27 Ignores Farmers, Global Food Security will Suffer
15.11.22We are already living in a world that is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times,…
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CGIAR Welcomes Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s $1.4 Billion Pledge to Climate Adaptation
10.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Low-income country leaders gathered at COP27 have repeatedly called for climate finance to support t…
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CGIAR Country, Region and Funding Partners Signal Strong Support for Integration
09.11.22A united, integrated CGIAR seen as vital to enabling farmers to meet 21st century challenges…
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The Economist: Farmers Have Stayed Ahead of Climate Change so far; with Help (including from CGIAR) They may Continue to
08.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Economist spotlights work enabling farmers to adapt to climate change in its pre-COP27 report…
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High Food and Fertilizer Prices and War in Ukraine
21.03.22Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to the disruption, by sanctions or war, of two…
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How war in global breadbasket threatens food security everywhere
21.03.22When Ukraine banned the export of wheat this month and started scattering land mines in…
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New Endeavor Fast-tracks the Power of Crop Diversity for Climate Resilience
17.03.22Researchers will source useful gene variations from CGIAR genebanks to develop climate-smart crops A…
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New CGIAR Genebank in Colombia Receives $17 Million Funding from Bezos Earth Fund
15.03.22A success story in global cooperation, CGIAR’s network of genebanks is helping scientists climate-…
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Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics
15.03.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…
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Speakers at High-Level Event Highlight Research for Ending Growing Global Hunger
11.03.22On the sidelines of a meeting of European Union Development Ministers, a high-level meeting saw…
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How Bangladesh Became a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
07.03.22International Women’s Day 2022 The increased empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh over the pas…
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Food Is Just as Vital as Oil to National Security
07.03.22While Putin’s war in Ukraine is delivering shocks to the energy market and driving up…
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Coherence or cross-purposes? Building national coalitions for transformative evidence-based policies
04.03.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Despite well-intentioned policies and economic growth over the last decade, major inequalities persi…
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CGIAR Mourns Barbara H. Wells, Leading Expert in Genetic Innovation, Agriculture, and Forestry Research
17.02.22In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Wells helped improve the health…
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How Gender Equality Can Transform Food Systems and Protect Us From Climate Change Disasters
11.02.22Enabling women to be equal partners with men in the development and use of agricultural…
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Evaluation Case Study: CGIAR Ontologies Community Of Practice
20.01.22-
Big data
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Environmental health
Evaluations offer a chance for reflection, as well as an opportunity for improvement. They unravel…
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‘Seed funding’: How more billionaires can help end world hunger
23.12.21A recent Twitter conversation between the UN’s David Beasley and Tesla’s Elon Musk has shown…
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How can Agriculture Research for Development Inform the Sustainable Development Goals?
17.12.21-
Gender equality
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24…
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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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Voices, collaboration and complexity: Improving nutrition in the 21st century
07.12.21CGIAR-sponsored Nutrition for Growth side event grapples with challenges to provide nutritious diets…
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Big Data and Agricultural Research: Results of Online Survey
16.11.21-
Big data
The digital revolution has changed the ways of working, accessing information, and connecting with e…
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Panel data takes partnership and patience: first field visit of the Uganda National Panel Survey
15.11.21-
Big data
Even the best-laid plans have had to be revisited, revised, postponed, or cancelled as a…
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