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NATURE+: Moving toward a cyan and sustainable future in India!

CGIAR’s Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative and partners envision a green and blue (cyan!) economic future for rural areas in Western India. A cyan future will benefit nature, local economies and make agrarian communities more resilient to environmental and market shocks. Authors: Mansi Tripathi, Researcher – Resource Recovery and Reuse, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Alok Sikka, […]

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Teaming up for more impactful breeding

Breeders, economists, gender specialists, and food technologists gathered to advance new approaches to breeding crop varieties that people will want. A two-day online “hackathon” jointly organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the Excellence in Breeding Platform focused on key improvements to the impact of breeding programs. As these

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Local knowledge for global decision making: #weareindigenous

by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR)  Social Equity team,  and Martina Mascarenhas, Communications Consultant, ClimBeR Climate change and human rights violations further marginalize indigenous peoples and local communities. Indigenous communities today, especially indigenous youth, however, are changing this narrative, and harnessing their indigenous knowledge and practices to develop new skills, use technology, […]

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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations

Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. The international community invests significant resources in the design and testing of innovations to overcome key challenges such as food insecurity, malnutrition, and environmental degradation. Many of those innovations start as a bright idea that is then developed in a laboratory, to […]

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NASDA representatives visit CIMMYT

Crop science and farming research attracts interest of National Association of State Departments of Agriculture of the United States.

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Exploring the potential for blended wheat flours in Kenya  

CIMMYT supports practical solutions to the ongoing global wheat crisis by understanding consumer acceptance of foods baked from blended wheat flour.

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Investment Prospectus 2022–2024

  Putting the CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy into action CGIAR’s new Investment Prospectus provides a body of research and innovation to deliver on the priorities set out in the CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy. Covering the 2022–24 business plan period, the Investment Prospectus proposes a set of CGIAR Initiatives to be supported with pooled funding. CGIAR Initiatives CGIAR Initiatives are major, prioritized areas of investment that bring capacity from […]

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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia

If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink called bushera and if an India-inspired peanut bar is a popular item in Zambian supermarkets, a training initiative in partnership with the India-Africa Forum Summit deserves mention. The initiative over the past three years fostered nutripreneurs like Mr Adams Sapeho, a food scientist turned […]

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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years

Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of the Indian groundnut industry which is keen on marketing ‘healthier’ oil to consumers in the next 2-3 years. Information on the new varieties which come with a potential yield of more than 3 tons per hectare (see box) were shared […]

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GLF Luxembourg 2019

In its fourth year as the world’s most innovative forum on sustainable land-use finance, the GLF Investment Case Symposium will bring the brightest minds together to move this form of finance from niche to mainstream. An annual meeting for finance leaders from around the world, this one-day event will help unlock the power of sustainable finance […]

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CGIAR Science Groups

The CGIAR Research Initiatives within the CGIAR 2022–24 Investment Prospectus have been organized around three Action Areas: Genetic Innovation, Resilient Agrifood Systems and Systems Transformation. CGIAR scientists are organized into three Science Groups that correspond to these three Action Areas. While each Initiative is managed by a specific Science Group, scientists working on these Initiatives typically […]

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The Lancet: Experts call for an end to the exploitative marketing used by the baby formula milk industry

[…] of breastfeeding as preludes to formula milk marketing, and industry-sponsored parenting apps with 24/7 chat services that enable product placement, offer free samples or deals, and promote online sales. The authors argue there is very little regulation of the formula milk industry online and there are regular violations of the Code. A new review, […]

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Voices of Change: Save seeds, plant indigenous crops!

by Mary Ng’endo, CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience (ClimBeR)  Social Equity team,  and Nyang’ori Ohenjo, the Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) How can people’s knowledge inform climate action? More specifically, how can people bring their experience and knowledge of what works in a local context to global decision-makers? Doing so successfully may just lead […]

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Reflections on Uganda’s seed systems: building opportunities and addressing constraints

A blog by the RTB seed system research cluster to reflect on lessons from field visits to Uganda’s RTB crop seed sector during the annual cluster meeting in Uganda. The RTB seed system research cluster is a cross-cutting, interdisciplinary group of researchers working together under the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas. Every […]

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IITA Director General and CGIAR Regional Director for Continental Africa

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is an award-winning, research-for-development (R4D) organization providing solutions to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, IITA improves livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. Headquartered in Ibadan, Nigeria, […]

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Groundnut variety tolerant to drought and foliar fungal disease with superior haulm quality released in Odisha, India

After a gap of 14 years, Odisha state in India officially released a new groundnut variety ‘Kalinga Groundnut-101’ as an alternative to ‘Devi’, the ruling variety. Both the varieties are of ICRISAT origin. The new variety has a pod yield and kernel yield advantage of 12.1 % and 20.7% respectively. It is tolerant to drought, […]

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CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Entrepreneur Spotlight: Afri-Farmers Market – Leveraging Technology to Empower Rural Farmers

[…] technology (agtech) company that helps local farmers access stable markets for their produce, thereby improving their incomes and food security.  The Afri-Farmers Market Solution The Afri-Farmers Market online platform. Photo credit: Afri-Farmers Market Afri-Farmers Market is an enterprise that is committed to creating a sustainable market for smallholder farmers in Rwanda. Through its platform, […]

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Inspired by “enemy of world hunger” Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, national and global institutions and research centers strengthen their commitment to food security

Mexican authorities and international researchers pay tribute to World Food Prize Laureate and former CIMMYT wheat scientist Sanjaya Rajaram at the CIMMYT experimental station in Toluca that will bear his name.

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ILRI annual report goes online

ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its publication history, the report is primarily online. Going digital was done to save paper, match the best practices of other organizations within the CGIAR, and just generally speaking jump into the 21st century, says new Communication and Knowledge Management […]

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Key technology for biofortification goes online

Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development of nutritious crop cultivars across the globe through biofortification, ICRISAT and CGIAR’s HarvestPlus opened up their x-ray fluorescence (XRF) testing facilities through a recently launched online platform. The platform will make available existing and new XRF analyzers at […]

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Free online courses on banana plant health and disease management. First course on Xanthomonas wilt of banana

Free online courses on banana plant health and disease management. First course on Xanthomonas wilt of banana. https://www.crophealth.org/courses/xanthomonas-wilt Blomme, G.; Ocimati, W.; Kearsley, E.; Safari, N.; Ntamwira , J.B.

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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online

[…] with the congress as a face-to-face meeting due to the travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the organizing committee has delivered the scientific program of the congress online. Congress proceedings are available at interdrought2020.cimmyt.org. Today the organizing committee extended the reach of the congress proceedings to the global community by providing free online access to 43 presentations, […]

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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us

1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato growing kebele in the Southern region of Ethiopia; Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region (SNNPR). This changed 10 years ago when farmers lost planting material due to the combined effect of extended drought, pests and diseases. For more than a decade, farmers were able to get planting material through seed aid and […]

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Request for Proposals: Procurement Consultant Services for CGIAR

1. OBJECTIVE The CGIAR System Organization solicits proposals from qualified procurement consultancy firms to provide services in four phases to advance the improvement of procurement practices within CGIAR research organizations. 2. BACKGROUND CGIAR is a global research partnership whose mission is to create a world with sustainable and resilient food, land, and water systems that deliver […]

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Communication Officer

[…] CSISA Project Manager and Project Leader. Contribute content to CIMMYT’s internal and external communications platforms in coordination with CIMMYT’s Communications team at HQ. Writing, editing, and proofreading online and print content. Lead new approaches to create and distribute multimedia content to the supported CSISA projects. Coordinate regularly with local vendors (printing, graphic design, video) […]

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Preserving wild potato relatives with Alberto Salas, Agronomist, International Potato Center

Alberto Salas has dedicated his life to finding, researching, and preserving potato wild relatives. . He’s crisscrossed the Andes on foot, horseback, bus, plane, and car. He’s waded through thickets of cactus needles and nursed broken bones in remote areas when cell phones were a sci-fi notion of the future. He’s bribed busloads of people with […]

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Project Administrator

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT® (www.cimmyt.org), is a not-for-profit research and training organization with partners in over 100 countries, and through offices in Africa, Asia and Latin Amer...

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Ecological farming a boon for staple crop farmers in Africa, new study finds

Thirty long-running farm trials show crop choice and manure addition can sustain high yields at low fertiliser rates.

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Building policy coherence related to food systems, soil, and water for coordinated work between governments

In recent years, countries have suffered various crises – climate or economic. These trends suggest the need for countries to be more resilient. Policy formulation would be central to this. A CGIAR initiative aims to strengthen policymaking in several countries by fostering coherence of national policies and strategies (NPS).  In this interview, Dr. Augusto Castro, […]

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La construcción de coherencia en políticas relacionadas con los sistemas alimentarios, suelo y agua para un trabajo coordinado entre gobiernos

En los últimos años, los países han sufrido diversas crisis —climáticas o económicas—. Estas tendencias sugieren la necesidad de que los países sean más resistentes. La formulación de políticas sería fundamental para ello. Una iniciativa del CGIAR pretende fortalecer la formulación de políticas en varios países fomentando la coherencia de las políticas y estrategias nacionales […]