Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The dietary equation is currently unbalanced. More than 800 million people are chronically undernourished, while two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, and an equal number are overweight or obese. Diverse diets are often unavailable, implying that improved products have to be thoughtfully delivered into value chains and markets, at the nexus of dietary education and reinforcing conditions such as public intervention in domains as diverse as regulation in different respects, including food safety, and sanitation and water quality. The use of chemical-based fertilizers and pesticides also risks exposure of the public or agricultural workers to health risks. Growing concern about emerging infectious diseases, of which many are zoonoses, highlights the need for informed interventions to control such diseases, which threaten production and human health. Anti-microbial resistance is a major emerging issue driven in part by the food system.
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
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Update on the CGIAR research response to COVID-19
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)14.01.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis and massive disruptions to economies and…
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CGIAR researchers share COVID-19 work from across the system
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.01.21-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
One key function of the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub, established in July 2020, is to gather…
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Forman Lecture: Ellen Piwoz’s playbook for the future of global nutrition
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)12.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN When Ellen Piwoz joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007, th…
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New India National Family Health Survey data shows worrying trends on anemia, overweight
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
Children's heights are a bellwether indicator for all the things that can go wrong, or…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
CGIAR04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)31.12.20-
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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Events
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14.12.20
Fish for Progress: Investor Forum Meeting
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20.11.20 > 21.11.20
Virtual Conference of Ocean Governance for Sustainability: Action Insights and Foreshadowing Challenges
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02.09.20 > 04.09.21
Ocean Panel: Sustainable Ocean Economy Global Launch & Follow the Sun National Events
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10.11.20
Signing Ceremony: WorldFish and the Department of Women and Child Development (WCD), Government of Odisha
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29.10.20
FAO Global Regional Aquaculture Reviews: Presentation of The State of World Aquaculture 2020
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21.10.20
CGIAR researchers join the Chef's Manifesto Resilience Sessions
Virtual
Publications
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Impact of good hygiene management practices on the reduction in microbial contamination of roasted sheep meat sold at urban dibiteries in Senegal
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.01.21-
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Prevalence of tick-transmitted pathogens in cattle reveals that Theileria parva, Babesia bigemina and Anaplasma marginale are endemic in Burundi
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.01.21-
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Countering the double-whammy of zoonotic diseases
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.12.20-
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Towards better livelihoods of livestock-keeping communities
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
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Multi-mycotoxin occurrence in dairy cattle and poultry feeds and feed ingredients from Machakos Town, Kenya
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.12.20-
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Salmonella identified in pigs in Kenya and Malawi reveals the potential for zoonotic transmission in emerging pork markets
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)04.12.20-
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