BY DALIA ELSABBAGH, SIKANDRA KURDI AND MANFRED WIEBELT The day-to-day hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic are often compared to life during wartime. But Yemenis have it far worse: They are experiencing a pandemic and a war simultaneously. Before 2020, Yemen’s ongoing civil war had cut GDP almost by half; since then COVID-19 has further decimated the economy. Dalia Elsabbagh, Sikandra Kurdi,
Moved by the need to create an active community of research around agricultural innovations, SPIA recently awarded small grants to 14 early-career researchers working in Ethiopia. Taking stock of efforts for institutionalizing the collection of adoption data at the country level, grantees have started working on some of the puzzling questions raised by the Ethiopian synthesis report. Each grantee has been assigned a
The impacts of COVID-19 on our global food system have affected the food security and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people worldwide, with market closures, supply disruptions and losses in income and employment. Understanding the extent and nature of these impacts will be critical to building resilience to future shocks, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. CGIAR researchers have conducted
WorldFish has announced a new, restructured leadership team to guide the implementation of its 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy: Aquatic Foods for Healthy People and Planet, which sets a pathway to end hunger and advance the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 through the transformation of food, land and water systems… Read the rest
Global thought leader, philanthropist and one of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and CGIAR’s most vocal and generous supporters, Bill Gates, wrote a book about climate change and is now taking it around the world on a virtual book tour to share a message of urgency and hope. With How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gates sets
Nephew of a dairy entrepreneur near Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). JIMMY SMITH, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), made a slide presentation at a half-day webinar on ‘The place of science in the COVID-19 story’, held on 18 Dec 2020. The webinar brought together leaders of research organizations in the health, agriculture, livestock, public sector,
This blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH). Here, we focus on research examining gender within small-scale fisheries, in particular how social principles emerge and travel, inclusion in biodiversity conservation, and the tracking of gender-sensitive facilitation techniques. Enabling the spread of gender equity The Sustainable
Harnessing aquatic foods through the sustainable growth of aquaculture deserves more attention in responding to the global call to transform food systems toward more nutritious and resilient diets for all, said experts in a recent panel discussion hosted by WorldFish and the Global Panel of Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN). As the world faces the enormous challenge of producing