Food Security
Yield increases of staple crops have flatlined, struggling to keep pace with growing demand. Agricultural output must increase in harmony with the natural environment by improving access to quality inputs, extension services and innovations along the value chain
CGIAR and the Sustainable Development Goals
CGIAR research to improve food security and nutrition contributes strongly to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and targets for the 2030 agenda, to address:
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News
Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
25.04.18- Food Security
- Genomics
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units commit delivery of good quality germplasm
25.04.18- Food Security
- Genomics
The GHU is composed of germplasm experts from CGIAR centers including AfricaRice, Bioversity Interna…
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
23.04.18- Food Security
- Prosperity
ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
21.04.18- Biodiversity
- Food Security
Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis
19.04.18- Food Security
- Prosperity
Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…
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Enhancing seed quality in Sri Lanka through improved drying and storage
19.04.18- Food Security
IRRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations through the Closing Rice…
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Events
- 26.04.18 > 27.04.18Read moreNairobi, Kenya
- 10.10.18 > 12.10.18
Science Forum 2018
Read moreStellenbosch, South Africa - 14.10.18 > 17.10.18
5th International Rice Congress - Singapore 2018
Read moreMarina Bay Sands 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore - 20.03.18
LAUNCH EVENT: 2018 Global Food Policy Report
Read more1201 I Street, NW Washington, USA - 23.03.18
Innovations in Ensuring Remunerative Prices (MSP) to Farmers
Read moreNew Delhi, India - 05.04.18
Tales of yield improvement
Read moreWashington, USA
Publications
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Evaluation of CRP Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
29.03.18- Climate
- Food Security
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Evaluation of CRP on Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry (FTA)
29.03.18- Environment
- Food Security
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Evaluation of CRP on Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)
28.03.18- Food Security
- Nutrition
- Prosperity
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Evaluation of CRP on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB)
28.03.18- Food Security
- Health
- Nutrition
- Prosperity
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Evaluation of CRP on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS)
28.03.18- Food Security
- Prosperity
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Evaluation of CRP Maize
28.03.18- Environment
- Food Security
- Nutrition
- Prosperity
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