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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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Trade wars lead to real wars when the strong pray on the weak (RT)
09.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
RT published an article on the possible implications of the growing trade tensions between the Uni…
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Cholera in Zambia: Treating the Causes, not the Symptoms (News Diggers)
05.04.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Zambia’s News Diggers published an article on the recurring cholera outbreaks in the country.The…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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AfricaRice launches free mobile app for rice weed control in Africa
05.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has launched a powerful new decision-support tool, called ‘Ric…
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Determining the True Costs of Our Food Through Systems Thinking (Food Tank)
04.04.18-
Food security
Foodtank published a feature on IFPRI's senior research fellow, Wei Zhang, and her work on the…
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Increasing sustainability by leaps and bonds
03.04.18-
Environmental health
A recent private sector initiative to help fund sustainable natural rubber plantations in heavily de…
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10 best-bet innovations for agriculture in the National Adaptation Plans
03.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A degree of future climate change is inevitable, making adaptation measures indispensable. However, …
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MIT Technology Review: Is Pakistan running out of fresh water?
02.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The sight of water flowing from taps may soon be a luxury, with people having…
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Rice Today: Mending Asia’s broken rice bowls
30.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A decade of research demonstrates that “citizen science” has a major role to play in…
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Bad food raising under-nutrition and obesity: Experts (Business Standard)
29.03.18-
Food security
Business Standard published an article with comments from IFPRI's Senior Research Fellow Rasmi …
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Climate Change Could Reduce Farm Output, Increase Number Of India’s Hungry People: Report (IndiaSpend)
29.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
IndiaSpend published an article the potential impacts of climate change on food security and farmin…
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Farm distress is now haunting us: NITI Aayog’s Rajiv Kumar (Mint)
29.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India's Mint published an article featuring comments from speakers at the launch of the 2018 Globa…
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How to feed 9 billion people within planetary boundaries
29.03.18-
Food security
What are the challenges and what do we need to change to be able to…
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Women, girls' right to food being violated (The Daily Star)
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
The Daily Star published an article on the impacts of gender prejudices on the rights of women an…
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‘Conflict Is More Profitable Than Peace’ (New York Times)
28.03.18-
Food security
The New York Times published an op-ed on the importance of mitigating conflict to reduce poverty…
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Anti-globalism threatens progress in hunger, poverty reduction - 2018 Global Food Policy Report (My Joy)
28.03.18-
Food security
Ghana's My Joy published an article on the 2018 Global Food Policy Report, which focussed on the …
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Innovations in rice value chains offer increased job opportunities for rural youth
28.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), together with the Africa Rice Ce…
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US vows to defend farmers from possible China trade action against soybeans (CNBC)
26.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CNBC published an article on the rising uncertainty of whether China will retaliate to President…
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