by Mercy Lungaho | Jun 19, 2017
This piece first appeared as a guest commentary on the website of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Given its impressive track record over the last 20 years, Rwanda has rightly been considered a model for reducing poverty and hunger in Africa. Between 1990 and...
by Georgina Smith | May 29, 2017
Good NEWS for the Fight Against Malnutrition Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Power a Nutrition Early Warning System (NEWS) for Africa Since at least the 1970s, food crises have seemed to strike sub-Saharan Africa with depressing frequency They often require...
by CIAT Comunicaciones | May 17, 2017
Through a natural, affordable alternative to farmers’ heavy use of nitrogen fertilizers, science now offers an option to boost crop productivity and dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the authors of a report that will appear this week in the...
by Neil Palmer | May 15, 2017
A new multimillion-dollar initiative plans to disrupt food production across the developing world, with the aim of making it more productive, efficient and resilient – all through the power of information. The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture is jointly led...
by Georgina Smith | May 12, 2017
This opinion piece first appeared in Kenya’s Business Daily Newspaper on May 1st. As this week’s Nairobi Burger Festival draws to a close, we revisit the underlying cause of a spike in milk prices and draw attention to an issue which could bring us fewer burgers...
by Colin Khoury | Apr 24, 2017
Five surprising ways people’s diets have changed over the past 50 years By Sara Kammlade and Colin K. Khoury Newly released interactive infographics show how the so-called “globalized diet” has emerged. They unearth a number of surprises about the foods we eat across...
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