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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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When the remedy is worse than the disease: Agricultural policy in Punjab, India
15.12.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
By Avinash Kishore and Claudia Ringler Twenty-five years ago, when the Chief Minister of Punjab…
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The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation
14.12.22-
Food security
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century,…
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IRRl engages with Indonesian govt, leading telecom company for Rice Crop Manager Project
13.12.22-
Food security
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Health
To support Indonesian rice farmers with science-based decision-making and help contribute to the Ind…
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One Rice Breeding Network and Crop Tour 2022 in India create a unified understanding, communication, and learning for researchers
01.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Various breeding trials are in place across India and have been happening for years as…
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Pres. Marcos makes historic trip to IRRI to discuss how IRRI innovations and technologies can help transform Philippine agriculture
29.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
On 29 November 2022, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos visited the International Rice Resear…
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Food security and the cultural heritage missing link
28.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Although several initiatives to reduce food production deficits and increase net food supply have yi…
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New countries from Asia and the Pacific join Seeds Without Borders Initiative
28.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
(Thimphu, Bhutan, 23 November 2022) – During the two-day workshop on “Seeds Without Borders,” …
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A real-time livestock water source monitoring and risk management system project in Ethiopia
25.11.22-
Adaptation
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Food security
By Alemayehu Sintayehu The livestock sector contributes about 36% to the Ethiopian agricultural GDP …
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Press Release: Kenya National Policy Dialogue by CGIAR’s Ukama Ustawi Initiative targets climate-resilient agriculture and more
23.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Bridging knowledge and coordination gaps for resilient maize production and a better enabling enviro…
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Press Release: CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Programme will scale-out climate-smart innovations in agrifood systems in East and Southern Africa
23.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
NAIROBI, November 23, 2022 — The underlying reasons for poor agricultural performance in climate-c…
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Addressing the food crisis in Yemen: The private sector’s key role amid local conflict and global market disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine war
21.11.22-
Food security
The Yemen conflict, underway since early 2015, has led to an ongoing, unprecedented humanitarian em…
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Recicle+, una convocatoria de iniciativas sobre economías circulares
21.11.22-
Food security
La iniciativa del CGIAR Nature+ busca reimaginar, co-crear e implementar sistemas agroalimentarios m…
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Agriculture for Peace platform launches at Borlaug Dialogue
18.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Events of the past year have underscored the correlation of food supply chains, and weaknesses…
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Policy seminar: Agriculture in the Americas and COP27
14.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
With the COP27 global climate conference now underway through November 18 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egyp…
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Can agricultural exports from Southern Cone countries make up for global supply disruptions arising from the Russia-Ukraine war?
14.11.22-
Food security
The economies of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay), major agricult…
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How is economic security linked to violence against women and children? New insights from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2022
11.11.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
Poverty is a well-established risk factor for violence against women and children—but how much do…
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India’s Odisha State launches master plan to spur livestock sector investment and growth
11.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
A master plan to guide the long-term investment and growth of the livestock sector in…
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Is food security possible without peace?
09.11.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The intersection between agriculture and peace has been brought to the forefront of the news…
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