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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
16.05.25-
Big data
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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Toolkit Launch: Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition
10.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative shares a new open-access guide that collects less…
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PIM Flagship Notes 2018: Overview and recent achievements
07.12.18-
Food security
Six newly released two-page brochures, representing each of the PIM research areas ('flagships'), gi…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral approach improves child growth in Guatemala
07.12.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a beha…
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Which are the right crops to enable food security under future climates?
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A new paper sets out to determine if crop-specific research investments can be prioritized to…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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A wheat self-sufficiency roadmap for Ethiopia’s future
05.12.18-
Food security
Despite a record harvest of 4.6 million metric tons in 2017, Ethiopia imported 1.5 million…
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WEBINAR: Aspirations, trust, and poverty reduction
05.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate…
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The Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI Announce New Hosting Partnership
05.12.18-
Nutrition
Washington D.C., December 3, 2018 - The Micronutrient Forum (the Forum) and the International Food …
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Wild meat for today and tomorrow
05.12.18-
Food security
Worldwide, the meat of wild animals is sought after for a range of reasons. In…
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Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress
04.12.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
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Refugees impatient for seedlings as UK MPs open new season of agroforestry and other tree-based solutions in NW Uganda
04.12.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
For ten months, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) has worked in the refugee areas of Northwest Uganda…
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From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity
04.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“Not all of CGIAR’s objectives are maximized by increasing yield alone; if we want to…
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CIMMYT drought tolerant maize: A key innovation for millions of farmers, says FAO
03.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As climate experts forecast another climate-warming El Nino in early 2019, maize varieties develope…
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A food security monitoring and early warning system for Guatemala
03.12.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Supported by Bioversity International and CCAFS, the Guatemala Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Se…
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AgriLinks.org: Final report on Tajikistan water users association impact evaluation
03.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
USAID commissioned the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to examine the impact of USA…
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Fixing food 2018: Best practices towards the sustainable development goals
03.12.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
This report investigates best practices in food sustainability across the world. It uses the three…
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West Bengal agri-entrepreneur a role model for farmers in her community
29.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Hosneara Bibi is a farmer in the village of West Ghughumari, in the Cooch Behar…
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