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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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‘Historic’ India Millet Mission campaign to begin in September
25.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Road-map for National Year of Millets 2018, presented The largest producer of millets in the…
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High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
17.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so th…
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A thriving community of women seed producers
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Tying up with one of China’s oldest agri-science academies to accelerate modern research pursuits
10.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To foster joint academic and research pursuits and to explore future collaborative ventures, the Zhe…
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Feeling the pulse: Towards better self-sufficiency in pulses in India
26.07.18A multi-pronged approach including quality seed availability and increased profitability for farmers…
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Bolstering NARS partners with systems modeling training
18.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The use of systems modeling tools and decision support systems can be of great advantage…
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Bhoochetana: An exceptional story of innovation scale-up bringing prosperity to over 4 million farmers
10.07.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In May 2009, farmers in the state of Karnataka were facing declining crop yields and…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
06.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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ICRISAT declared as Centre of Excellence for tribal development
29.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ministry of Tribal Affairs Govt. of India declared ICRISAT as Centre of Excellence to support…
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Walmart Foundation invests nearly US$2M in ‘Farmer Market Readiness Program’ in India
27.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over 6000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh will move to an improved business model for better…
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Using Photovoice to assess impacts of behavior change nutrition activities in Kenya
05.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Novel ways are being explored to make nutrition interventions more effective and efficient in Kenya.…
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Africa’s first biofortified pearl millet variety aims to combat anaemia
01.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
For millions of women and children in Africa anaemia is a significant public health concern—and…
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Major step forward in chickpea and pigeonpea research – reference genome data assembled
26.05.18-
Nutrition
Breeding high nutritional varieties of chickpea and pigeonpea just got easier. With new technology, …
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Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa
25.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives …
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Launching the Millet Song – 'To Gain'!
22.05.18-
Food security
A good idea needs strong messages and inspiring champions. The Smart Food initiative has been…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global…
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