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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR 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.
14.04.2511th 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
14.04.25Nairobi, 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
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The 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
03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
30.09.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Two seminars convened by WorldFish, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Inte…
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Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
26.11.20-
Food security
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Health
The impact Covid-19 has had on farmers has been devastating. Harvest delays due to mobility…
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After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
17.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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IWMI receives the 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award
04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This is in recognition of the Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product developed by IWMI scientist…
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Can citizen science help to fill hydrology data gaps in Ethiopia?
27.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IWMI conducted a qualitative study to investigate the possibilities of embedding a citizen science a…
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How taking a systems approach to water will help to meet our future food needs
15.10.20-
Nutrition
On World Food Day, Dr. Mark Smith, Director General of the International Water Management Institute…
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Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities c…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
02.10.20-
Health
The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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Initial Research Highlights Importance of Irrigation for Ethiopian Farmers During COVID-19
02.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Agriculture sustains the Ethiopian economy, and access to irrigation here is critical for food secur…
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Can groundwater cushion Africa from future shocks, and spark development?
17.07.20-
Food security
Groundwater has thus far been a sleeping giant in most of sub-Saharan Africa. However, there…
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Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 the recipe for a cascading disaster
10.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
In the immediate aftermath of Amphan, access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is…
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Ensia: COVID-19 is telling us that it’s time for global systems change – starting with water
08.06.20-
Health
COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized…
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IFPRI: Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
08.06.20-
Health
Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, w…
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Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
04.06.20-
Environmental health
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Health
BY CLAUDIA SADOFF AND MARK SMITH Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; …
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
14.05.20-
Health
Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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