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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-
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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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Supermarketization is not the only strategy to enhance food safety in China
05.09.20-
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In a new paper, the author explores how supermarketization of China's vegetable sector has impacted…
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How long do seeds live? A 100-year experiment in the Arctic to reveal the secret
04.09.20-
Food security
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Genebanks of six global research institutions including ICRISAT have begun a 100-year experiment at …
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20 years of ASTI: The go-to source for data and analyses on agricultural research in developing countries
04.09.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY NIENKE BEINTEMA This year marks the 20th anniversary of ASTI, which provides open-source data, a…
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The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann
03.09.20-
Health
A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Sla…
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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?
02.09.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN…
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Initial Research Highlights Importance of Irrigation for Ethiopian Farmers During COVID-19
02.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Agriculture sustains the Ethiopian economy, and access to irrigation here is critical for food secur…
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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do
01.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit:…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
31.08.20-
Food security
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Health
BY VIVIAN HOFFMANN AND EMILY WU In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin—a contaminant produced …
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Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America
31.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
When fall armyworm first arrived on the African continent in 2016, the potential loss of…
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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?
29.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
28.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Two pearl millet varieties with 7.0% and 5.4% higher green forage yields as compared to…
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High altitudes linked to higher rates of stunting
27.08.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KALEAB BAYE, KALLE HIRVONEN AND EMILY WU Child stunting affects nearly 155 million globally, on…
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Policy seminar: Unpacking the impacts of COVID-19 on economies, food systems, and poverty in African and Asian countries
26.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA Countries around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implemen…
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Improving Biosecurity: A Science-Based Approach to Manage Fish Disease Risks and Increase Socioeconomic Contribution
26.08.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Nigeria is now one of Africa’s largest aquaculture producers with catfish (Clarias spp. and Hete…
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Data collection in a diverse and complex food system
25.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IFPRI’s objectives in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are to strengthen data collection and analysis to…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
24.08.20-
Nutrition
Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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