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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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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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Financing a sustainable food future
16.02.18-
Food security
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla Financing a sustainable food future Argentina shou…
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Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and economic transformation
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Food security
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Katarlah Taylor Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and…
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Scaling up biofortified crops: Which ones, where and when?
13.02.18-
Nutrition
In 2017 HarvestPlus developed a new, 5-year strategic plan for 2018-2022. The goal of this strate…
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Policy seminar: To feed the world, youth in agriculture required
12.02.18-
Food security
February 12, 2018 IFPRI Blog Mary Kate Costello Katarlah Taylor Policy seminar: To feed the…
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Accelerating progress to meet 2030 goals to improve child and maternal nutrition
09.02.18-
Nutrition
February 9, 2018 IFPRI Blog Purnima Menon Stuart Gillespie Pratima Mathews Accelerating progress to …
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Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
February 8, 2018 Guest post Justin Yifu Lin Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food…
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Scaling Up DNA Fingerprinting for Crop Variety Identification
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Big data
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Food security
DNA fingerprinting is the process through which genetic material is extracted from a sample taken…
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“…An exceptional opportunity to promote up-and-coming African researchers”
02.02.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ma…
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New African agricultural transformation scorecard highlights continent’s progress
01.02.18-
Food security
Feb 1, 2018 Press Statement New African agricultural transformation scorecard highlights continent…
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Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn on street vending (All Africa)
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Health
Jan 30, 2018 In the News Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn…
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Leadership, accountability, and setting priorities are key to end hunger and undernutrition
29.01.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Jan 27, 2018 Press Statement Leadership, accountability, and setting priorities are key to end hunge…
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FTA’s research domain on livelihood systems receives strong rating
29.01.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo by SK Dalal/ICRAF Following the revision and resubmission of Flagship 2 on livelihood system…
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Livestock production for food security and nutrition
23.01.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Jan 20, 2018 Press Statement Livestock production for food security and nutrition Statement by Sheng…
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Farm Size and Productivity - Lessons from Recent Literature
23.01.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farm size is at the heart of current policy debates over issues such as land…
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Deadly Sweet Sugar (Caijing)
16.01.18-
Nutrition
Jan 16, 2018 In the News Deadly Sweet Sugar (Caijing) IFPRI's Kevin Chen proposes sugar…
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Orphan crops for improving diets
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Photo by K. Kehlenbeck/ICRAF Orphan crops, so-called because they are considered neglected and under…
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Africa RISING –NAFAKA partnership benefits over 50k households in Tanzania, exceeding targets
05.01.18-
Food security
The partnership between two projects funded by USAID, Africa RISING, and NAFAKA, and whose goal…
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Book Release: Pulses for Nutrition in India: Changing Pattern from Farm to Fork
22.12.17-
Nutrition
Dec 27, 2017 Press Release Book Release: Pulses for Nutrition in India: Changing Pattern from…
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