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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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Build trust, build lives…
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“Farmers thought we were coming to steal their money!” Microfinance specialist Lamine Sountoura …
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Morocco’s Wheat Sector: Higher Productivity is Within Reach
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A recent study by ICARDA scientists analyzed Morocco’s wheat sector, a strategic crop that is…
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Classic milpa maize intercrop can help feed communities forgotten by development
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The traditional milpa intercrop — in which maize is grown together with beans, squash, or…
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African project highlights importance of legume crops on World Pulses Day
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Could legumes be the key to food production sustainability and climate change resilience? They consu…
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In the Spotlight: Quennie Vi Rizaldo
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Quennie Vi Rizaldo is a Human Nutrition Specialist at WorldFish collaborating on the USAID-funded Fi…
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In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
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Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fi…
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Building Commercial Standards to Boost Trade in Nutrient Enriched Crops
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In every step of commercial supply chains, purchasers look to standards to ensure that suppliers…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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Inspiring Ethiopian youth to adopt smart farming
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Youth in the highlands of Ethiopia have been encouraged to take up farming by participation…
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Policy seminar: Tackling the double burden of malnutrition with double-duty actions
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The double burden of malnutrition—the combination of undernutrition (stunting, wasting, and micron…
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Q&A with Maria Andrade: Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes that farmers and families love
25.01.21-
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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato breeder and World Food Prize winner Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade loves sweetp…
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Policymakers urged to prioritize aquatic foods to end malnutrition
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Global policymakers and development funders have been urged to think of fish and other aquatic…
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Great ideas, science and dedication, 50 years of transformative innovations
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As we mark the 50th anniversary since the foundation of CIP and the CGIAR, you can be proud of…
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Nutrition-sensitive approaches from pond to plate in Myanmar
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Looking at aquaculture through a nutrition lens is leading production and dietary shifts toward dive…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
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Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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Forman Lecture: Ellen Piwoz’s playbook for the future of global nutrition
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BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN When Ellen Piwoz joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007, th…
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New India National Family Health Survey data shows worrying trends on anemia, overweight
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Children's heights are a bellwether indicator for all the things that can go wrong, or…
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Shrimp Farming and Research in Bangladesh Adapts to COVID-19 Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted tremendously every aspect of the economy in Bangladesh, including…
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