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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-
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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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New review finds fundamental gaps and new opportunities for world’s agricultural monitoring systems
05.11.18-
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The world’s agricultural monitoring systems provide up-to-date information on food production to d…
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NEW STUDY: Cash Transfers coupled with Behavior Change Communication sustainably reduce violence against women
02.11.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication can reduce vio…
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies
02.11.18-
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Food security
A group of leading international organizations joined with IFPRI and PIM in 2013 to form the…
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Policy seminar: Exploring agriculture’s key role in reducing poverty
01.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural development is among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and is central to…
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Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
31.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts …
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World Cities Day: Growing urban poor populations face unique nutrition challenges
30.10.18-
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Nutrition
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This…
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It's Time for a Change in the Breeding Mindset
30.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
"Today the challenge has changed: We need to address an ever growing population, under a…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
30.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
28.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major…
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WEBINAR: Do medium and large-scale farms generate income spillovers for rural households? The case of Tanzania
26.10.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Land acquisitions by foreign and local investors has generated much speculation about the impacts on…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher
26.10.18-
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Nutrition
A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced i…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
25.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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An agri-food revolution for tropical root and tuber crops
22.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“When, where and how will tropical root and tuber crops lead to the next agri-food…
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