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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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Webinar on culture, choice and action in legume seeds systems in East and North Uganda
10.05.19-
Environmental health
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted a webinar on ‘Culture, choice and acti…
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Representatives from Eight Asian Countries Meet to Tackle Fall Armyworm
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over 100 participants from eight South and South-East Asian countries attended today the “Regional…
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Policy outreach to mainstream SIMLESA learning: Q&A with Paswel Marenya
30.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Af…
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New study identifies best agronomic practices to reduce fall armyworm damage
27.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The fall armyworm, an invasive insect-pest native to the Americas, has caused significant damage to…
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“We are developing environmentally sustainable and productive livestock systems”: Michael Peters
25.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Michael Peters and his team have been developing tropical forage varieties that enable improved anim…
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EARTH DAY: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist?
22.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Palembang, Indonesia – Present day South Sumatra looks a lot different from its heyday as…
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Five ways food systems can make or break our Earth
22.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
From the year 2013 to 2016, Lao banana exports increased to $200 million, a tripling in…
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Earth Day 2019: Building common ground on sustainable governance of commons
19.04.19-
Environmental health
The celebration of Earth Day (April 22) reminds us that all species, including Homo sapiens, shar…
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Mobilizing youth for forestry development
18.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Youth leaders from the Asia and the Pacific discussed the crucial role of young people…
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To manage El Nino-related crop distress in eastern and southern Africa, invest in drought-tolerant seeds and better soil and water care
17.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
To mitigate the impact of the current drought affecting millions of farmers living in Kenya…
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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests
17.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
15.04.19-
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This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial
10.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, are…
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Transforming food systems in Southeast Asia
09.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
09.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
08.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakehol…
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French agricultural research and CGIAR reinforce their scientific collaboration to the benefit of agriculture, food and climate change
05.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Laying a strong foundation for a joint plan of action between CGIAR and France to…
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Well-meaning tenure reforms can’t quash land conflicts
04.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When countries revise their land and forest tenure laws, whereby rights are granted to people…
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