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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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New multipurpose sorghum variety captures attention in Burkina Faso
26.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
A new variety of sorghum that delivers high yields of grain and stover is gaining…
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Covid crisis has shown India’s food policy must have buffer stocks at community level too
26.05.20Representational image for Indian agriculture | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloomberg Accustomed…
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COVID-19 calls for renewed focus on eating right and natural
24.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Post-COVID-19 scenario offers a unique opportunity to seize the moment and repurpose policies toward…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India 
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A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…
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Better seeds and best practices enhance incomes for smallholder farmers in Mali
08.05.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in Mali are improving their incomes , earning better livelihoods and enjoying more fulfillin…
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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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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
08.05.20-
Food security
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Health
A look at how digital tools and technologies have been and could be used to…
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Double burden of COVID-19: Declining livelihood opportunities and aspiration failure among poor people
08.05.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis but an economic crisis too. In…
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Let’s not forget the quality of food in crisis, millet entrepreneurs speak out
07.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Pan-India survey highlights areas for government intervention A recent survey of millet entrepreneur…
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New protein study reveals power of millet-legume blends for enhancing human health
01.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two billion people around the world are suffering from protein and micronutrient deficiencies. The r…
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Access to improved varieties and warrantage services helps Malian farmers save for children’s schooling
01.05.20-
Gender equality
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Health
Double yields from improved varieties, access to storage facilities and timely credit through the wa…
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Stronger local food value chains can leave Eastern and Southern Africa more resilient post COVID-19
01.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
COVID-19 has seized the drylands of Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), home to some of…
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Impact of COVID-19 on women working in the domestic sector in Hyderabad
01.05.20-
Food security
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Health
The recently extended lockdown in India, now in force until 3 May, is a necessary…
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Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
01.05.20-
Food security
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Health
Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not an appropriate time…
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Noted plant health researcher to lead ICRISAT as Director General
30.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Dr Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes, a well-known plant health expert and leader in international agricul…
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India groundnut farmers’ seed business debut yields big profits
24.04.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
A group of Indian farmers who made their entrepreneurial debut last year increased their income…
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Seeds of rural recovery: States must consider accommodating returnee migrants in small-farming
23.04.20-
Food security
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Health
Small and marginal farmers remain the dominant food producer and major workforce in India, and…
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