Health
2016 saw this decade’s first increase in the number of chronically undernourished, now more than 800 million people. Two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, an equal number are overweight or obese.
CGIAR and the Sustainable Development Goals
CGIAR research to improve nutrition and health contributes strongly to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and targets for the 2030 agenda, to address:
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News
Reconciling growth with nature’s gifts
07.01.19- Environment
- Health
Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral approach improves child growth in Guatemala
07.12.18- Health
- Nutrition
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a beha…
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Proposed need for additional tax for meat to prevent cancer (Tribun News)
30.11.18- Health
Tribun News published a news piece about governments' ideas of taxing red meat in response to fin…
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Lancet Countdown 2018 report shows concerning trends in heat and heat waves, infectious disease and declining food security
29.11.18- Climate
- Health
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is a multidisciplinary, interna…
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Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
26.11.18- Food Security
- Health
- Nutrition
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
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Tanzania registers AflasafeTZ—the effective technology to combat aflatoxin
22.11.18- Food Security
- Health
The eagerly awaited registration of AfasafeTZ by the Tropical Pesticides Research Institute in Tanza…
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Events
- 12.12.18 > 13.12.18
2018 Partners' Forum
Read moreNew Delhi, India - 10.12.18
International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions
Read moreVienna, India - 04.12.18
Emerging Food System in South Asia: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
Read moreNew Delhi, India - 19.07.18
The economics of teff
Read moreAddis Ababa, Ethiopia - 09.07.18 > 18.07.18
High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)
Read moreNew York City, USA - 28.11.18 > 30.11.18
Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
Read moreBangkok, Thailand
Publications
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Climate change and infectious livestock diseases: The case of Rift Valley fever and tick-borne diseases
01.01.19- Climate
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A survey of aflatoxin M1 contamination in raw milk produced in urban and peri-urban areas of Kisumu County, Kenya
17.12.18- Health
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Sustained food safety action for improved nutrition and health of Africans
12.12.18- Health
- Nutrition
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Status of aflatoxin contamination in cow milk produced in smallholder dairy farms in urban and peri-urban areas of Nairobi County: A case study of Kasarani sub county, Kenya
11.12.18- Health
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Assessing knowledge, beliefs and practices related to the consumption of sheep and goat meat in Senegal
28.11.18- Food Security
- Health
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Tackling antimicrobial resistance: Activities by the International Livestock Research Institute
15.11.18- Health
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