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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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Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
09.09.20-
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We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on…
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Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach
02.09.20-
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BY MIKE MURPHY, KATE AMBLER AND ALAN DE BRAUW Climate change poses a significant threat to livelih…
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Launch of AfricaRice Annual Report 2019: Toward rice-based food systems transformation in Africa
02.09.20-
Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 2 September 2020 - At a time when the need for a…
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Which tree, where in Nepal? Mapping for the national agroforestry policy
27.08.20-
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Researchers have used different geospatial datasets of land, soil, climate and topography to model, …
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Improving Biosecurity: A Science-Based Approach to Manage Fish Disease Risks and Increase Socioeconomic Contribution
26.08.20-
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Nigeria is now one of Africa’s largest aquaculture producers with catfish (Clarias spp. and Hete…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
24.08.20-
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Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
20.08.20-
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The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
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Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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Tree roots reduce landslide risk
19.08.20-
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Researchers in Indonesia provide evidence of suitability of tree species in preventing landslides. &…
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How many trees does a healthy watershed need?
17.08.20-
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Indonesian spatial-planning law prescribes that every district needs to have 30% forest cover to sec…
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Legumes grow money: Success script of seed systems in Malawi
14.08.20-
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An estimated US$ 40 million per annum, up from US$ 17 million in 2009, was…
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‘Data streaming from the spectrometer’: a new dawn for soil assessments
13.08.20-
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For over two decades, the Soils Theme of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in collaboration with partners…
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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
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What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Launch of the ICRISAT Annual Report 2019
07.08.20-
Biodiversity
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2019 was a year of many firsts… And we are glad to have rolled out…
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Drought-prone landscape turns green
31.07.20-
Environmental health
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Kalahandi district in Odisha, India, has suffered from repeated droughts and famines for several dec…
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Designing resilient farming systems that can better meet farmers’ complex needs and confront future challenges
31.07.20-
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What strategies should farmers take in order to improve their resilience to climate change and…
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COVID-19 and food security | Limiting the impact of the crisis on rice value chains in West Africa
30.07.20-
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 30 July 2020 -- Rice plays a strategic role in food…
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