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  2. CGIAR launches COVID-19 response

    Sarah Cummings shared information from the group Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA 2 April 2020
    25 March 2020. CGIAR , as the world’s largest public research network on food systems, provides evidence to help understand and address threats to food and nutrition security from the COVID-19 pandemic , such as: The food system has been significantly affected, and these impacts will grow if...
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  3. The impact of PPPs on gender equality and women’s rights

    Published in February 2020, this briefing from the Gender and Development Network explores the effect of PPPs on gender equality and women’s rights – highlighting concerns over increasing costs to governments alongside threats to the provision of universal, gender-transformative public services. It...
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  4. Policy briefs on the role of the private sector in knowledge brokering for development

    Sarah Cummings shared information from the group Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Management for Development 27 January 2020
    Published in January 2020, two new policy briefs examine the role of the private sector in knowledge brokering for international development, based on research from an academic research project. Policy brief No. 1: The private sector as the ‘unusual suspect’ in knowledge brokering for international...
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  5. Scaling readiness: concepts, practices and implementation

    Sarah Cummings shared information from the group Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture - ROSA 27 January 2020
    Published in January 2020 by the CGIAR, these new guidelines on scaling readiness encourage critical reflection on how ready innovations are for scaling, and what appropriate actions could accelerate or enhance scaling. Scaling readiness treats innovation as a flexible package of technological,...
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  6. Gates Foundation launches new agricultural research institute

    According to a press release published on 21 January 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in the process of creating a new nonprofit, Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, which seeks to accelerate the development of innovations supported by the foundation’s Agricultural...
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