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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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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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DailyMaverick.co.za: As water systems fail across the country, rural communities look to self-supply
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Food security
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Gender equality
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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When small is beautiful – but not spectacular
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Taking stock of a widespread water intervention in Africa. New study highlights the need for…
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Recharging Nepal’s mountain springs
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A novel approach for determining where and how to intervene. In mountainous areas of Nepal,…
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Biodiversity’s freshwater connection
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Biodiversity
A key role for sustainable water management in curbing species extinction.…
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People power
23.04.19A first for Myanmar – participatory management of a pump-based irrigation scheme.…
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Transforming food systems in Southeast Asia
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Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative…
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Assigning value to nature’s bounty
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Environmental health
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Toward more inclusive water management in Kenya’s Tana River Basin.…
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World Water Day 2019
19.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Voicing water visions in river basins across the developing world. Join us in celebrating World…
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Food for thought from Sri Lanka on World Water Day 2019
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How farmers have taken charge of their destiny by using motor pumps for irrigation. Except…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Translating research evidence into change for gender equality. In preparing to celebrate Internation…
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How CGIAR research is helping close the global gender gap
07.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A World Economic Forum article by IWMI director general Claudia Sadoff.…
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Making science and knowledge inclusive for gender equality
07.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Could women be the source of change? Advances in women’s representation in government show much…
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Gender solutions for sustainable water management in Western Nepal
07.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IWMI study calls for investment in the social capital and capabilities of women and marginalized…
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Navigating the road to socially inclusive hydropower
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Asia Times opinion article reports insights from new research in Nepal.…
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Groundwater and sustainable development
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
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Fine-tuning flood risk management
20.02.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
New rounds of pilot testing and post-flood recovery in India.…
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Water security for sustainable dryland development
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The search for options to boost water productivity…
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SciDev.net: Arsenic in groundwater – no silver bullet
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Environmental health
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Health
Soumya Balasubramanya tells SciDev.Net that the recommendations outlined in new United Nations Unive…
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