Simon Heck
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Simon Heck is Senior Director, CGIAR, and was appointed Director General of the International Potato Institute (CIP) in February 2023.
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Agricultural mechanization transforming East and Southern Africa's farming sector
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CGIAR INITIATIVES Diversification in East and Southern Africa Primary Impact Area Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs Related Impact Areas
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Enhancing protection and climate resilience for millions
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CGIAR INITIATIVES Fragility, Conflict, and Migration Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas
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CGIAR: A Vital Knowledge and Science Partner for Climate Action
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Over the past two weeks, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change gathered in Glasgow, UK for COP26, the most important climate summit since the landmark Paris Agreement at COP21 in 2015. It was the first opportunity for countries to come together to review and step up their national commitments to reduce emissions by 2030. And it
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Developing a New Paradigm for Partnerships: Together for Stronger Food Systems
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In Africa, it’s said that if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. By Marco Ferroni, Chair of the CGIAR System Board. The world indeed has far to go to deliver safe and healthy food, livelihoods and environments for all, a complex undertaking made yet more difficult by climate change, the
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The missing link: Making women part of the response to the global food crisis
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Learning from past crises can help us ensure an inclusive, gender-equitable response to today’s global food security emergency. Today’s global food crisis is the result of a perfect storm of risks and disruption that shines a spotlight on the cracks in our food systems and resulting risks for millions of people’s food security. The COVID-19 pandemic and its related recession,
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Launch of a new Global Partnership for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils initiative
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Rome/Texcoco, Mexico – An initiative to build resilient agrifood systems grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy soils, today marked another milestone through a new partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CIMMYT, a CGIAR Research Center. FAO and CIMMYT signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a Partnership for the Vision
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Methane Solutions for African Livestock Systems: Mazingira Research Highlighted at the Climate and Clean Air Conference 2024
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LRI’s Mazingira Centre is a leading research hub for greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions in agricultural systems, with a particular focus on African livestock systems. The CGIAR Research Initiative has been supporting the Centre to strengthen its work over the last three years, whilst building partnerships and contributing to policy dialogues. This includes contributing to the Climate and Clean