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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Climate security in the Ganges deltas: Interview with PhD researcher Suza Ma for Womens History Month
29.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Written by Nina de Ayala Parker. The Ganges Delta - like deep-set veins seeping through the land…
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Malian farmers garner benefits of breeding initiatives, despite pandemic
26.03.21-
Food security
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EU-APSAN-Mali project makes great strides in first year. More than 80,000 farmers, seed and grain…
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Building seed business hubs around women and youth in Tanzania
26.03.21-
Gender equality
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Health
Working with private seed companies, ICRISAT is helping integrate more women and youth into seed…
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Food systems approach key to balancing biodiversity, livelihoods
26.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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A food systems approach led the extraordinary recovery of hilsa fish stocks while boosting the…
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Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda
26.03.21-
Nutrition
Upscaling Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Beans and Finger Millet in Uganda…
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COVID-19 and other shocks facing Papua New Guinea's food economy
25.03.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted urban and rural households throughout Papua New Guinea (PNG). Loo…
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Building resilient aquatic food livelihoods in Myanmar
24.03.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish researchers are working alongside small-scale aquatic food producers and value chain actor…
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What is nixtamalization?
23.03.21-
Nutrition
For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known…
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The RTB Toolbox: Building capacities for seed systems development
22.03.21-
Food security
Twimanye Makoye is a commercial sweetpotato farmer in Bukombe District in Northwest Tanzania. He pro…
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Water storage gaps are growing worldwide. We need an integrated approach
22.03.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
For millennia, storing water has been a cornerstone of survival for many societies, especially in…
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Launch event: Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer (AIDA) guides policy makers on potential economic and social impacts
19.03.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DALIA ELSABBAGH Investments in agriculture can have broad economic and social impacts. To help…
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UK Minister Lord Ahmad visits ICRISAT, discusses climate action
19.03.21-
Food security
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Health
Lord Tariq Ahmad, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth in the UK…
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The European Commission hopes for greater collaboration to improve food and nutrition security
19.03.21-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Delegates from the European Commission to Mali expressed interest in exploring new opportunities for…
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Watershed interventions provide groundwater access all year through
19.03.21-
Environmental health
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Health
Water conservation structures in Anantapuramu: A check dam (L) constructed in Kondampalle village, A…
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Investing in rural women farmers narrows the gender gap in agriculture
19.03.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The glaring inequality between men and women farmers in the African agricultural sector is alarming…
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ILRI scientist Hung Nguyen-Viet discusses his experiences with the WHO team investigating COVID-19 origins
19.03.21-
Health
Hung Nguyen-Viet, co-leader of the Animal and Human Health program at the International Livestock Re…
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CIMMYT to dedicate historic wheat experimental station to Sanjaya Rajaram
18.03.21-
Nutrition
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) will rename one of its most historic…
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Mass-produced coffee and chocolate puts nature and social welfare at risk, scientists warn, with urgent transformation needed
18.03.21-
Food security
Higher prices are among reforms needed to tackle farmer neglect, child labor and environmental damag…
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