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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
CGIAR16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
CGIAR14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
CGIAR14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
CGIAR08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
CGIAR07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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What are kids watching online? How digital food marketing shapes children’s and adolescents’ diets
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
AfricaRice05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture30.04.20-
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Despite many exemptions from lockdown, the agricultural sector in India has experienced major disrup…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture27.04.20-
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In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)26.04.20-
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ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture24.04.20-
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From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Phone app gives opportunity to improve water productivity in Lebanon
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)21.04.20-
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…
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Blast and rust forecast
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.04.20-
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An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming
WorldFish30.03.20-
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A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)20.03.20-
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A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
AfricaRice27.02.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)24.02.20-
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The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)21.02.20-
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“The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)14.02.20-
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Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.01.20-
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In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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Key technology for biofortification goes online
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)13.12.19-
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Online platform opens up easy access to x-ray fluorescence testing at ICRISAT To support development…
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.12.19-
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Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.19-
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Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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Mobile-based monitoring tool rolled out for national partners in 7 African countries
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)01.11.19-
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“The MLE [Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation] tool MEASURE (Monitoring and Evaluation of Agri-Sci…
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