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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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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
15.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Sweetpotato refuse becomes a valuable resource
14.05.20-
Food security
Small-scale sweetpotato farmers in Uganda have adopted innovative technologies that not only improve…
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
14.05.20-
Health
Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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Five stark COVID-19 warnings from the agriculture R4D sector
14.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As communities around the world cope with the novel coronavirus, it’s becoming clearer that the…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable
14.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent – and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where mil…
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Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own…
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Resilient and participatory: How Quito’s setting the standard on urban food systems
14.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Like many cities around the world, Quito, Ecuador, is confronting major challenges around providing …
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Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
13.05.20-
Food security
A major farmer survey is gathering data to understand how smallholders in Laos are responding…
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
12.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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Aflatoxin biocontrol product lowers maize, groundnut contamination in Senegal
12.05.20-
Health
Results from a new study show Aflasafe to be highly efficient at reducing aflatoxin contamination…
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Nigerian experiences shared at milestone data forum on nutrition action in West Africa
11.05.20-
Nutrition
Together 4 Nutrition Data Forum drew diverse groups of data producers and users to address…
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COVID-19: Stakeholders count losses in Aquaculture
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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‘Our lives depend on it’: Women’s gleaning vital for food and income in Timor-Leste
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s 5 am on an August morning. The tide is low at Beacou beach, where…
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Compendium of indicators for food system assessment
10.05.20-
Food security
Food systems research is a vast topic with many entry points. This compendium explains the…
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Successful partnership with Odisha Government for effective agri strategy in times of COVID-19
08.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Working closely with the Government of Odisha, ICRISAT has helped develop a mitigation strategy for…
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