The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability. “This partnership will help us carry on saving lives and changing lives so more people have the opportunity to prosper and be self-sufficient.” The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, has united effort
ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at farmers in dry regions. The series promotes best-agronomic practices to improve productivity and enhance the quality of the crop at low cost. 2021 is the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV) by the UN General Assembly. Several events throughout the year will be dedicated
BY KEIJIRO OTSUKA AND SHENGGEN FAN While agricultural development has long been linked to increased food production and availability, improved farming productivity, and increased incomes for small farmers, the changing global landscape has resulted in agriculture playing a larger role in many other areas of human well-being, including reducing poverty, providing adequate nutrition, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting equity and
Governments and foundations investing in CGIAR are seeing extraordinary value for money, according to a recent international report. The investment has generated a 10 to 1 return, and breeding science is highlighted as a major contributor. Commissioned by the Supporters of Agricultural Research (SoAR) Foundation, the report entitled The Payoff to Investing in CGIAR Research calls agricultural research “slow magic.” With returns
by Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song Sticky gender attitudes? Researchers typically think of gender attitudes as challenging to move or shape. How individuals see women and their proper roles in society is viewed as sticky—something that might be changed through intensive programs and policy changes, but otherwise deeply entrenched since childhood. This has been a
CGIAR CONTRIBUTORS Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, CIFOR-ICRAF, FTA, WLE TYPE OF INNOVATION Biophysical science Genetic (varieties and breeds) Production system
The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda with an aim to increase ESA’s varietal turnover rate and boost adoption of improved varieties. Digital seed roadmaps, increasing private seed sector and community seed producer participation, innovating digital tools and building business cases for the crops are part of the strategy. High quality seed
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sahel) trees showed pearl millet yields rising by up to 41% in low input conditions. The observations led researchers to recommend ziziphus trees at 80 plants per hectare and helped show how smallholder farmers in Niger’s drylands can increase productivity and income potential two to threefold