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This year’s Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems conference brought together researchers from around the globe to discuss how research can advance gender equality in agriculture and food systems. One plenary session, titled  Rural women’s voices: Messages to researchers, highlighted the experiences of rural women farmers and entrepreneurs. Women from Uganda, Kenya, the Netherlands, Nicaragua and

With Kenya in the grip of a drought resulting in 30% less water, women are having to walk up to 14 kilometres each day to get water just to meet their household needs. This does not include watering their crops. Lake Chad, bordering Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon has shrunk by 90% forcing 2.4 million people to flee their homes.

BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO Do ambitious women tend to be more empowered in their households? Our recent study, published in Economics of Transition and Institutional Change (with co-authors Kamiljon Akramov, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Jie Song, and Hongdi Zhao) suggests that the answer is yes—women with higher aspirations tend to be more involved in intra-household decision-making, and they and their spouses are also more

Now in its seventh year, the AsiaBlight Network is committed to finding solutions to ward off and eliminate late blight disease, a pathogen that lays waste to 3-10 billion US dollars of potatoes annually around the world. Fungicides are the most common tool of defense against late blight, but these agrochemicals can cost up to 10-25% of the total value of a potato farmer’s harvest, thus reducing incomes and raising… The post An ounce of

New and more accessible digital phenotyping technologies and methods can help breeding programs collect data faster and better. EiB is partnering across CGIAR to expand, accelerate and streamline adoption. In the last few years, there has been a tool, technique and technology revolution in phenotyping. To ensure these are better streamlined across CGIAR and national crop breeding programs, CGIAR Excellence

December 8, 2021 Agro Landscapes has launched “Synergies and tradeoffs in food, land and water systems”, a series of six interactive e-learning modules that brings together the insights of over 40 international experts on transforming our food, land and water systems for a sustainable and inclusive future. Climate change, biodiversity and human health are inextricably linked through our food and

CGIAR-sponsored Nutrition for Growth side event grapples with challenges to provide nutritious diets for everyone, everywhere At the United Nations Food System Summit this past September, nutrition was identified as a key action area deserving renewed focus as the world continues its pursuit of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. While Zero Hunger is still a primary objective, focusing on this end alone is not enough. Now, as the world prepares for

WLE symposium celebrated the achievements and impacts of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) which closes following a ten-year journey in December 2021.