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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
16.05.25-
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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Press Release: FFAR Grant Develops Climate-Resilient Wheat
11.01.21-
Food security
FFAR + CIMMYT NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACTS: Brian Oakes, FFAR: 202-604-5756, boakes@founda…
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Four ways One CGIAR breeding programs can walk the talk on innovation
11.01.21-
Food security
By Hugo Campos and Michael Quinn In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and…
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Agricultural value chain finance can help drive Myanmar’s agricultural growth
11.01.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SIDDHARTHA BASU, ALAN DE BRAUW, KHIN PWINT OO AND RUSSELL TOTH Surrounded by some…
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New India National Family Health Survey data shows worrying trends on anemia, overweight
08.01.21-
Health
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Nutrition
Children's heights are a bellwether indicator for all the things that can go wrong, or…
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Taking stock of value chain development
07.01.21-
Food security
In 1967 Albert O. Hirschman, the pioneering development economist, published Development Projects Ob…
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Big costs, bigger rewards: How $33 billion in spending each year can help end hunger sustainably by 2030
07.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The Ceres2030 project has shown the urgent need for additional investments—a…
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Shrimp Farming and Research in Bangladesh Adapts to COVID-19 Pandemic
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted tremendously every aspect of the economy in Bangladesh, including…
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Thriving with complexity
06.01.21-
Food security
Visiting Margaret Nalujja with Elliot Baligeya of UFVEPA. You can see the charcoal cooler behind…
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Policy seminar: Prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area
05.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF On Jan. 1, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) formally took…
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Agriculture remains preferred occupation in rural Nigeria despite pandemic-related challenges
31.12.20-
Food security
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Health
A survey in rural parts of Northern Nigeria shows that in spite of problems in…
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Experts call for global One Health platform to consolidate evidence on actions to tackle antimicrobial resistance
30.12.20-
Health
The World Health Organization has declared that antimicrobial resistance is one of the top 10…
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Policy seminar: Expanding policy research to strengthen Eurasia’s food systems
29.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Along with other regions of the world, Eurasia has been hit hard…
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Encouraging entrepreneurship with mobile grinders and seed cleaning machines
29.12.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia are promoting entrepreneurship and rural businesses thro…
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10 new chickpea varieties released in 2020 in collaboration with NARS
24.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Market-driven chickpea innovations record many firsts in Africa and Asia. To meet the growing global…
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Announcing CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa
23.12.20-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the successful …
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PIM News: November-December 2020
22.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dear colleagues and friends, Welcome to the final issue of PIM News in 2020! As…
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Policy seminar: Promoting recovery and resilience for Latin America’s agrifood industry
22.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY ADRIANA CAMPOS, JONATHAN HEPBURN AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO The COVID-19 pandemic has presented serious…
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Transformative engagements – a new way to discuss gender relations in agriculture
21.12.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
For years now, gender equality has been a central objective in international development agendas. Th…
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