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Public breeding operations teams serving lower income countries need to upgrade their skills and tools, optimize their programs, and deliver better varieties, faster. CGIAR’s new Breeding Operations Network for Development (BOND) is ready to make the connections. Food demand is expected to double by 2050 in low-income countries. Meanwhile new climate realities are threatening output. This means smallholder farmers

Research has shown that improving the safety of food sold in informal markets can be achieved through three approaches: capacity building, incentives that bring change, and an inclusive policy process.

Following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), measures to contain its spread have affected several aspects of the food value chain, including safety. Although COVID-19 is not transmitted through food, poor hygiene and sanitation can enhance its spread. Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute recently led a study to examine the impacts of COVID-19 mitigation measures on

Colombia has seen rapidly increasing deforestation, especially in areas of the Amazon rainforest. This deforestation has had a profound ecological impact on this, the world’s second most biologically diverse country, which has forest covering more than half of its territory and provides a home for 10% of the world’s species. However, a big step against this trend has been facilitated

Jordan’s arid and degraded Badia region covers nearly 90% of the country’s area and hosts over 60% of its livestock. In collaboration with the National Agricultural Research Center (NARC), the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) have developed a new way to identify potentially suitable areas

The Alliance is part of a multidisciplinary consortium recently awarded $3.8 million to launch the project “People-centered Food Systems: Fostering Human Rights-based Approaches”.

When it comes to agricultural systems, women and men don’t always see eye to eye. Their preferences, experiences, and the extent of their access to resources are often quite different. And agricultural research for development projects struggle to deal with the complexity of these gender dynamics. A new portal launched by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

For World Environment Day, Mira Haddad, ICARDA’s Associate Researcher in Spatio-temporal Assessment and Rangeland Rehabilitation, joined the WOCAT/UN “Restoring Life to the Land” webinar to discuss ways to combat global desertification, and talk about ICARDA’s work with Bedouin communities to rehabilitate severely degraded rangelands in Jordan. During the webinar, Mira explained how in just five years, ICARDA -alongside the farming