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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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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: India
05.05.20-
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On March 25th India initiated a strict 21-day lockdown, later extended until May 3rd and…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Bangladesh
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Protective measures were instated progressively from March 17th, evolving into a ten-day nationwide…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Myanmar
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Following first case detections at the end of March, Myanmar instituted stay-at-home orders, curfe…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Egypt
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Egypt enacted measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the end of March including…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Nigeria
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More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun states were put under federal lockdown on…
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IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
05.05.20-
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CGIAR Research Centers commend Bangladesh’s response to contain Covid-19 spread, call for ensuring…
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Why 'home garden' projects don’t always work: Insights from Ethiopia
04.05.20-
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BY KALLE HIRVONEN AND DEREK HEADEY In Ethiopia, the average person eats just 42 kg of fruits and…
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New protein study reveals power of millet-legume blends for enhancing human health
01.05.20-
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Two billion people around the world are suffering from protein and micronutrient deficiencies. The r…
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Reaching Farmers and Vulnerable Communities Amid COVID-19
28.04.20-
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As the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it impact economies and societies around the…
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Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: The coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis
28.04.20-
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BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally)…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
24.04.20-
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Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019
23.04.20-
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BY SARA GUSTAFSON An estimated 135 million people in 55 countries around the world faced…
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The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protect
23.04.20-
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BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL Nutrition has been a development priority for a decade. Many…
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Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in Sahel
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
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To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
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India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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Domestic livestock not a source of the COVID-19 disease—ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Eric Fevre
15.04.20-
Nutrition
A cattle keeper in Laos gives her cow salt (photo credit: ILRI Stevie Mann). ‘People…
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