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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Big data
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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IRRI-supported Rice Corp wins the prestigious Hult Prize
18.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
September 16, New York, USA -- Rice Corp (currently known as SunRice), in partnership with…
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Forests: an overlooked resource for tackling micronutrient deficiency
17.09.18-
Food security
A study by the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute argues that forests are an overlooked re…
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Consumers willing to pay a premium for sustainably produced rice, a new study shows
13.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through behavioral market experiments, they elicited consumers’ willingness to pay for rice produc…
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New study examines socio-economic effects of training informal milk vendors in Kenya
12.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Training of milk vendors in Kenya’s informal dairy sector could be a pathway to progressively…
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IRRI, World Bank team up to strengthen post-harvest management in Myanmar
12.09.18-
Food security
A robust seed system is the "backbone" of a vibrant rice production sector. To strengthen…
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African Agriculture's Future Lies in Cultivating Youth, Not Only Crops
10.09.18-
Food security
By Dr. Nteranya Sanginga Guest column published on AllAfrica. Being able to accept the 2018…
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Swapping pesticides for beetles could put money in farmers' pockets
10.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Originally published as an Op-Ed on China Dialogue, republished here with minor edits. Every time…
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German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet
06.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentar…
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Identifying challenges and constraints experienced by women smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
05.09.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
The Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab’s socio-economic and gender equity research team expl…
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Banking on nature
04.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Projects that harness nature-based structures in places like Kenya and Sri Lanka are showing, green…
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WeRise-RR exhibits potential to increase rainfed rice production in Indonesia
04.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bogor, Indonesia, 14 August 2018 – Results of the initial on-farm experiments to validate the…
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Water for fish: Sustainable inland fisheries
04.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Inland fisheries are being overlooked in policy, management and development decisions, which is ulti…
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Tiny pest-killing wasps for Asia’s cassava crop ease anxieties on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
31.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KRIS WYCKHUYS An announcement for a new Broadway comedy? An economics-inspired sequel to A Bug 
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ElPais.com: What to do in the absence of water
30.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
No development is possible without it. And more than 5,000 million people could suffer scarcity…
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Webinar: Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For most smallholder farmers in the developing world, livelihoods are intertwined with agricultural …
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Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems
27.08.18-
Food security
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Health
As food security becomes better assured, and food supply more complex, the negative impacts of…
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Congo’s new agro-industrial park isn’t perfect, but deserves a chance to grow
27.08.18-
Food security
BY JOHN ULIMWENGU Despite Africa’s sustained economic growth, spectacular by all standards, its ec…
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World Water Week 2018
27.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Throughout World Water Week 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden, researchers from IWMI (the International …
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