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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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Emerging Youth: Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha
24.01.22-
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Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Imoran Farms Nigeria L…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
20.01.22-
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Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
11.01.22-
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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2021 was the year of collaboration in breeding informatics
10.01.22-
Gender equality
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6RfglCQkI[/embed] In March 2021, a new network of specialis…
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Accelerating financial inclusion of women in agri-food systems: What works?
04.01.22-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Avni Mishra, Ranjitha Puskur, Linda Etale One cannot refute the contribution women provide to the…
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Dietary diversity among men and women in rural Sri Lanka
31.12.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY DEANNA OLNEY,BESS CASWELL, RENUKA SILVA AND MALIKA FERNANDO Poor quality diets are the leading…
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A brighter future: The relationships between cash transfers, mental health, and investments
30.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA AND SHALINI ROY Mental ill-health is a significant disease …
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Water rights are women’s rights
29.12.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
Why water rights are women's rights and how better research can deliver both. Agriculture in…
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Launching the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
23.12.21-
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Integral to food and nutrition security around the world, artisanal fisheries and aquaculture are …
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CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
22.12.21-
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The CGIAR Research Program on Fisheries Agri-Food Systems (FISH) came to a successful conclusion aft…
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Cash transfers and women’s decision-making in Egypt: Still a man’s world
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY HODA EL-ENBABY, DANIEL O. GILLIGAN, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA, YUMNA KASSIM AND SIKANDRA KURDI …
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Interventions for women’s empowerment and repercussions for family welfare: Evidence from Uganda
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, KELLY JONES AND MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN Empowering women is a goal of many development …
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How can Agriculture Research for Development Inform the Sustainable Development Goals?
17.12.21-
Gender equality
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24…
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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique
15.12.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to…
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See, understand and hear the women who deal with climate insecurity
10.12.21-
Gender equality
With Kenya in the grip of a drought resulting in 30% less water, women are…
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Five ways gender research can better support women: Messages from rural women
10.12.21-
Gender equality
This year’s Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems confer…
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Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
09.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO Do ambitious women tend to be more empowered in…
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The politics of knowledge: Reclaiming the gender narrative across agri-food systems
01.12.21-
Gender equality
The colonization of knowledge in agri-food systems has many implications for the way we think…
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