Breeding Resources Initiative 2023 Progress Report
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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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CGIAR Annual Performance Report 2020 now available online
02.08.21The COVID-19 pandemic made 2020 a challenging year, placing considerable strain on global food …
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New CGIAR Initiatives announced to help radically realign food, land, and water systems
26.07.21Rome, Italy (July 26, 2021) – Today at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)…
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Improving sweetpotatoes for larger markets in Uganda
03.07.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bernard Yada is a sweetpotato breeder with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organiz…
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G20 Must Catalyze the Transforming of our Food Systems
01.07.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
CGIAR called on the G20 to foster international cooperation that transforms food systems through a…
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Reflections on One Health and Food Systems approaches--Op-ed by Hung Nguyen
06.06.21-
Food security
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Health
Dr. Hung Nguyen is the co-leader of Animal and Human Health Program at ILRI and…
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Hurting or helping? Why we need gender and food systems research
26.05.21-
Gender equality
This op-ed was first published by Devex on May 26, 2021. Well-intended efforts are being…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
Food security
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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How biodiversity conservation can help manage future pandemics — for plants and for humans
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
About a year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic fully seeped into our lives, The Counter…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Food security
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
11.05.21-
Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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ILRI scientist named among climate science's top 100
03.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
"On some days I think I can see hopeful signs. On others, I think no,…
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Can we create a climate-resistant coffee in time?
29.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Matthew Reynolds, Distinguished Scientist and Head of Wheat Physiology at CIMMYT, talked to The Guar…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
26.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
22.04.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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New zinc-fortified wheat set for global expansion to combat malnutrition
19.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
Scientists at CIMMYT expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that…
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New genotyping services launched across CGIAR and partners
14.04.21-
Big data
CGIAR Excellence in Breeding has launched new low-cost, high throughput genotyping services, positio…
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Seeding excellence through breeding excellence
05.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
When parts of Asia looked to be on the brink of famine in the 1960s,…
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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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