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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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Why gender matters in COVID-19 responses – now and in the future
22.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY AGNES QUISUMBING, NEHA KUMAR, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER Controlling the COVID-19 p…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in Sahel
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure
20.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…
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IWMI and Covid-19
20.04.20-
Health
The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…
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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers
19.04.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…
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Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
18.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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Transforming food systems for women’s empowerment and equity
17.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY LAURA ZSELECZKY, HAZEL MALAPIT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND AGNES QUISUMBING Shutdowns to control th…
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Satellite maps can help nations make critical food production decisions amid coronavirus
17.04.20-
Food security
Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red…
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Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal
17.04.20-
Health
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…
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Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge
17.04.20-
Food security
This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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