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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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Digital groundwater monitoring
08.12.20-
Environmental health
Taken together, digital monitoring and readily available data on the status of groundwater resources…
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Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
08.12.20-
Environmental health
There is a growing crisis beneath our feet. Scientists, soil specialists and policy-makers around th…
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Crop breeding and soil management must go hand in hand
05.12.20-
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Crop breeding is helping farmers in the developing world produce higher yields and better products…
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Too much or never enough
04.12.20-
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Although nitrogen has helped in contributing to human dietary needs, there are still large areas o…
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A deeper look at soil health on World Soil Day 2020
04.12.20-
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This Saturday, December 5th, is World Soil Day -- a day to celebrate soil, the…
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Embracing natural cycles for a sustainable food system
04.12.20-
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Food security
All farmers, whether they live in the chilly Ethiopian highlands or in the sun-baked plains…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
04.12.20-
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries
01.12.20-
Environmental health
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"If the world is to achieve the UN’s goal of providing adequate sanitation and ending…
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History meets hydrology in a South Indian district's perilous water gap
30.11.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Kolar district, in India's southern state of Karnataka, has been known for centuries as a…
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Use of scientific evidence for greater partnerships and better policies
27.11.20-
Environmental health
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Surveys on agricultural technology adoption in Nigeria carried out in 2019-2020 revealed gains made …
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WorldFish joins united effort to boost climate-smart food systems in Malawi
27.11.20-
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In Malawi, land and aquatic food systems engage 80 percent of the population playing a…
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Dried small fish powder provides opportunity for child health in Myanmar
27.11.20-
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As the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for nutritious diets, efforts to promote dried small…
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Taking stock of the national toolbox
19.11.20-
Environmental health
The Government of Ethiopia has consistently prioritized agriculture and sees it as a core component…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Hunter Synder
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
18.11.20-
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Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Rice-fish systems - back to the future
13.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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ICRISAT: innovation broker working with private sector An interview with Ram Dhulipala
06.11.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s iHub platform was recently highlighted in the Food & Business Knowledge Platform for…
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