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By: Dylan Anderson-Berens and Mark LundyThe Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Latin America, promotes market-driven sustainable food systems transformationIn our first blog in this series of four, we presented the Food Action Alliance (FAA) and its seven current flagship projects that respond to Latin America’s food system imperatives. As

Controlled grazing and frequent use of fire are strategies to enhance sequestration and preservation of carbon in soils in African rangelands. However, pragmatic evidence has been lacking up until a recent study by scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF). The team worked in collaboration with Hawassa University in Ethiopia and the Environmental Institute for Agricultural Research

CGIAR CONTRIBUTORS ICARDA TYPE OF INNOVATION Biophysical science Genetic (varieties and breeds) Production systems and management practices Research and communication methodologies and tools Social science

The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has a strong and close working relationship with Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. As we move towards One CGIAR, RTB looks back on a fruitful collaboration and forward to good things to come. The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and collaborators from Wageningen

The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and most disruptive in a wave of infectious disease outbreaks since 1980 for which zoonotic pathogens, a term used for diseases that jump from animals to humans, are responsible. HIV/AIDS and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic also have their origins in animal hosts. The forces fueling this rise in zoonitic threats are only intensifying.

The global development community has been building toward September’s United Nations’ Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) for much of the past two years. The process has involved dialogues at the local, national, regional, and global levels, consultations with a wide variety of stakeholders, and the dissemination of new studies and reports. As a result, critical failings have been highlighted and innovative

WorldFish and partners joined the 2021 World Water Week to discuss the critical importance of integrating agriculture, fisheries and water management to build faster resilience in global food systems. Together, they shared holistic approaches to fish-friendly irrigation and integrated rice-fish systems and their advantages to food production, nutrition, health and livelihoods and climate resilience. Read the blog to learn more.

Anniversaries mark moments in time to take stock of accomplishments and reflect on the path traveled. But they also inspire us to look forward to see what has yet to be done, the other places we need to go. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the International Potato Center (CIP) held an online celebration focused… The post With 50 years