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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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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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A catastrophe avoided
05.11.20-
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There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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Groundwater: Critical for our future
28.10.20-
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Groundwater makes up one-third of all freshwater use for drinking water supply and half of…
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Climate-smart innovations can boost aquatic food systems productivity in Bangladesh, says climate change expert
20.10.20-
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Climate-smart innovations are urgently needed to help poor and vulnerable aquatic food system actors…
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Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
19.10.20-
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Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
19.10.20-
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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Water and nutrition in a COVID-19 context: Where do we go from here?
16.10.20-
Environmental health
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Claudia Ringler is Deputy Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology and a Co-Coordi…
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The Failing Food Systems: Can Aquatic Foods turn the tide?
15.10.20-
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Currently, 2 billion people around the world lack access to diverse, nutritious, and safe diets…
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Strong Women, Strong Nation
12.10.20-
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Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help…
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Unravelling gendered practices in Nepal's public water sector
04.10.20-
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Among other social identities, gender is one of the most critical determinants of how an…
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A One CGIAR initiative to unlock the potential of gene editing for agriculture
02.10.20-
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Experts from public, private and non-profit research sectors emphasized the importance of working to…
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Resilient, inclusive aquatic foods systems key to tackling climate change and COVID-19, say researchers
25.09.20-
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Employing a systems approach to build the resilience of all actors in aquatic food systems…
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Food market stability: A necessary step for global social and environmental sustainability
24.09.20-
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BY PABLO ELVERDIN, MARTIN PIÑEIRO, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, ESTEFANIA PURICELLI, MARCELO REGUNAGA AND…
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WorldFish’s Shakuntala Thilsted joins experts to lead UN Food Systems Summit
18.09.20-
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WorldFish’s Program Leader for Value Chains and Nutrition Shakuntala Thilsted was appointed a…
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Optimism for sustainable peatland agriculture is here - and growing
17.09.20-
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Due to El Niño events, the rainfall pattern in Indonesia has changed. During the dry season, rain…
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How contour bunding and other technologies can reduce soil erosion and raise productivity in African watersheds
16.09.20-
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Communities inhabiting Africa's drylands frequently suffer from torrential floods and recurrent drou…
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Tackling agricultural water pollution – a 21st-century challenge
16.09.20-
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Agriculture is critical to the economies of developing countries. It is the basic source of…
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Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land-restoration strategy: under what conditions does it work?
14.09.20-
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The upcoming 2021–2030 United Nations decade of restoration aims to accelerate efforts towards ach…
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Transforming African food systems for a resilient future
10.09.20-
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By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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