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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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Can child wasting be prevented in times of crisis? Evidence from Burundi
28.04.21-
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This post is the sixth in a series on a research project in Guatemala and Burundi…
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A good pearl millet hybrid gets even better
23.04.21-
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A team of researchers in India has bettered an immensely popular pearl millet hybrid, HHB…
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Gender researchers highlight approaches to achieving equal opportunities
22.04.21-
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Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are a WorldFish-pioneered innovation that has been in contin…
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New review provides framework for studying food systems to address food safety and nutrition
20.04.21-
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There is a need for better understanding of how food systems operate in order to…
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COVID-19: How India fared during lockdown
19.04.21-
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The authors share 10 facts on India’s urban employment during the pandemic and the lockdown…
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Zimbabwe agriculture minister: Government, ICRISAT should unite against hunger, poverty and malnutrition
16.04.21-
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Dr Anxious Masuka, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlem…
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Tana Lala-Pritchard awarded 2020 Distinguished Alumna by Alpha Chi National Honor Society
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WorldFish executive director of Strategy, Innovation, and Communications, Tana Lala-Pritchard, is…
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Experts call for increased investment in One Health to reduce the burden of neglected zoonoses
14.04.21-
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One Health is a concept that recognizes that the health of people is linked to…
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Guidelines support COVID-safe fish transporting
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Approximately 200 metric tons of live fish are transported to markets every day in Bangladesh.…
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New brief series details aspects of One Health
10.04.21-
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A new series of briefs from the International Livestock Research Institute aims to improve understan…
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Ghana farmers’ group raises groundnut yield five-fold with improved varieties, breaks three-decade productivity barrier
09.04.21-
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Two improved groundnut varieties have helped a group of farmers in Ghana increase their yields…
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International Livestock Research Institute scientists support Kenyan government to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants
31.03.21-
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In the Nairobi laboratories of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the organizati…
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Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases
30.03.21-
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A research study led by the International Livestock Research Institute explored the impact of a…
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Peter Hotez at ILRI on vaccines and misinformation
29.03.21-
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Peter Jay Hotez, an American pediatrician and leading international vaccine advocate, spoke out agai…
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Malian farmers garner benefits of breeding initiatives, despite pandemic
26.03.21-
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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-
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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
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A food systems approach led the extraordinary recovery of hilsa fish stocks while boosting the…
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Building resilient aquatic food livelihoods in Myanmar
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WorldFish researchers are working alongside small-scale aquatic food producers and value chain actor…
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