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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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World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
23.06.20-
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Image of the full virion (complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell)…
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How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas
22.06.20-
Gender equality
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By Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa Policy makers and researchers tracking the impacts of COVID-19…
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Policy seminar: Micronutrients in emergencies – how can we prevent an increase in hidden hunger?
22.06.20-
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Nutrition
By Aynsley Morris The COVID-19 pandemic and associated business shutdowns and other control measures…
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A video is worth a million sweetpotato vines
22.06.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer-to-farmer training videos create demand for orange fleshed sweetpotatoes (OFSP) and high-qual…
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Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: Realismo sin magia
19.06.20-
Food security
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By Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla El día 2 de junio, el programa de Latinoamérica y el Caribe…
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Food systems need urgent overhaul to combat desertification
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Scientists, policymakers, farmers and consumers all need to collaborate to mainstream nutritious and…
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Small-scale fisheries as integral and integrated in the Sustainable Development Goals
19.06.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
“The Sustainable Development Goals provide the most comprehensive vision for development that the …
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Social safety nets are crucial to the COVID-19 response. Some lessons to boost their effectiveness.
18.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Daniel Gilligan The poor and other vulnerable groups are suffering the most negative consequences…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
18.06.20-
Health
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020 and the disease has…
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2020 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Building up food systems with inclusiveness and competitiveness
18.06.20-
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By Donghe Li The COVID-19 pandemic has created huge uncertainties for public health and economies…
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Collaborative research processes bring sustainable intensification results in Ethiopia, finds CGIAR-WLE evaluation
17.06.20-
Food security
High quality evidence is important if we are to scale sustainable agriculture practices effectively.…
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COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
17.06.20-
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Nutrition
By Corinna Hawkes The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food…
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It's time to take a business model approach to restore Ethiopia's lands
17.06.20-
Biodiversity
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The impacts of land degradation are already severe and far reaching. Degraded lands threaten soils,…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
17.06.20-
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Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Women-Led Biofortified Food Businesses: Advancing Nutrition and Health
16.06.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
HarvestPlus is proud to be working with enterprising women around the world who have created…
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Reversing desertification to enhance food security.
16.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This year’s Desertification and Drought Day theme is Food. Feed. Fiber. focusing on links betwee…
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Policy Brief: Safeguarding Food Systems in Southeast Asia Amid COVID-19
16.06.20-
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Since it was declared a pandemic by WHO on 11 March, COVID-19 has affected nearly…
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