Dr Nicoline de Haan has been appointed as the Director of the CGIAR GENDER Platform, as announced by Iain Wright, Chair of the GENDER Platform Interim Management Committee and Deputy Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). […]

A June 11 virtual event—co-organized with the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)—focused on social safety nets in COVID-19 response and their role in sustaining food security and nutrition. […]

Writing in the journal, Global Environmental Change, the researchers asked whether Nature can, or even should, be valued? Where public benefits derived from Nature are destroyed for relatively small private gains, can attaching market-equivalent prices to those public benefits help protect them? […]

By Gaudiose Mujawamariya Credit: Kristin Palitza/IPS ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-19 appear to be intensifying in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), fears of severe food shortages have prompted experts to warn that the region may be “on the brink of a hunger pandemic.” Efforts are intensifying to rally a major global response. But averting what some experts believe… […]