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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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The cost of improving nutritional outcomes through food aid programs: Is more and longer better?
20.11.20-
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Nutrition
BY JEF L. LEROY, JESSICA HECKERT, DEANNA K. OLNEY, SUSAN RICHTER, ELYSE IRUHIRIYE, MARIE T.…
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Gross Margin Analysis – A tool for better farm management
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A training session for farmers in Niger. In order to guide farmers in Niger to…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Hunter Synder
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Climate shocks reduce temporary urban out-migration rates in Eastern Africa
18.11.20-
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BY VALERIE MUELLER AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN As African countries experience more climate change-related…
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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
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Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Crowdsourced data reveals threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic
17.11.20-
Food security
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to multiple disruptions in food demand and supply, and while…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
12.11.20-
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BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
09.11.20-
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BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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Environment Minister launches women-owned food processing unit in Telangana
06.11.20-
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Mr Allola Indrakaran Reddy, Minister for Endowment, Law, Forest and Environment, Telangana, recently…
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Making digitalization work for African agriculture: The role of the enabling environment
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BY BENJAMIN K. ADDOM AND HEIKE BAUMÜLLER Fourth in a series of blog posts on…
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Informal food retail in Africa’s cities: governance, politics, policy issues
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To mark UN World Cities Day (Oct.31), new PIM Synthesis Brief summarizes recent research on…
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Behavior change communication in conflict zones: Program leads to improved breastfeeding and water treatment practices in Yemen
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY SIKANDRA KURDI AND SARAH EDWARDS In the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, a child…
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Young people in Niger explore different forms of agriculture for a better future
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Gender equality
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Over 150 rural youth in Niger joined an entrepreneur incubation program, participating in their firs…
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Fodder chopping machines lead to a thriving livestock feed enterprise in rural Niger
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Fodder chopping machines are proving to be a great help to livestock farmers in rural…
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Book launch: Agricultural extension evolves to address a rapidly changing world
20.10.20-
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BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Through its programs that educate farmers and apply scientific research in the…
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Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
19.10.20-
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Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
19.10.20-
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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