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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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Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya's future
10.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically…
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The Independent: Unless we empower women farmers, we may not have enough to feed the planet
09.03.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
In an opinion piece in The Independent, IWMI Director General Claudia Sadoff says "Achieving greater…
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For a food system at risk, women are key yet often overlooked
08.03.20-
Gender equality
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, and the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declara…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Change in carbon stock in soils currently underestimated, recent study shows
05.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The increase and decrease of soil carbon depend on how it is assessed. Nairobi, Kenya,…
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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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MEDIA ADVISORY | ASEAN-Swiss partnership on social forestry: What has been achieved?
27.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
JAKARTA (Feb. 26, 2020) – Throughout Southeast Asia, new laws introduced to support social forestr…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
25.02.20Hyderabad, 14 February 2020: Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with…
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When science and industry synergize to develop better crops
25.02.20Setting priorities for research in hybrid pearl millet, sorghum and pigeonpea in India Over 70…
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
25.02.20A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Vast amounts of energy, nutrients, water could be recovered from world’s wastewater, says new report
24.02.20Vast, valuable amounts of energy, essential agricultural nutrients, and water could be recovered fro…
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What’s next for CGIAR?
20.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you don’t know what CGIAR is, stop reading or ask Bill Gates (“you’ve probably…
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