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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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Fighting hidden hunger with agricultural innovation
05.04.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Maize provides 15-16 percent of total calorie intake in Asia, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa,…
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
02.04.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
India’s northwest region is the most important production area for two staple cereals: rice and…
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New publications: Biofortification of maize with provitamin A can reduce aflatoxin load
20.03.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Aflatoxins are harmful compounds that are produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, which can be f…
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Exploring young Africans’ role and engagement in the rural economy
15.03.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How do young rural Africans engage in the rural economy? How important is farming relative…
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Solving the “last mile” challenge of maize seeds
13.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agrodealers play a pivotal role in delivering the gains of the green revolution to millions…
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The Molecular Maize Atlas encourages genetic diversity
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of…
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Digital imaging tools make maize breeding much more efficient
11.03.19-
Big data
To keep up with growing maize demand, breeders aim at optimizing annual yield gain under…
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International Women’s Day 2019: Women in seed systems in Africa
06.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The maize seed sector in eastern and southern Africa is male-dominated. Most seed companies operatin…
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Addressing Mexico's aflatoxin challenge
04.03.19-
Health
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Nutrition
“The increasingly high prevalence of aflatoxins is a growing problem in Mexico,” says Natalia …
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New publications: Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia
27.02.19-
Gender equality
Despite formal decentralization, agricultural services in Ethiopia are generally “top-down,” cla…
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The missing seed market: Promoting improved seeds for women farmers
27.02.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Ethiopia, a World Bank study found that female farm managers produce 23 percent less yield per…
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Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast by examining alternative crops in the lower Gangetic plains
22.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Wheat blast — one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases — is moving swiftly into ne…
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New infographics illustrate impact of wheat blast
18.02.19-
Food security
Wheat blast is a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease that threatens food safety and security…
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Call for nominees for the 2019 Maize Youth Innovators Awards – Africa
28.01.19-
Food security
Nominations are now open for the 2019 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Africa! These awards…
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City dwellers in Africa and Asia increasingly choose wheat, research shows
23.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The developing world’s appetite for wheat is growing swiftly, driven in part by rising incomes,…
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The itsy bitsy spider can make a big impact in agriculture
15.01.19-
Environmental health
A new study explores how conservation agriculture in southern Africa supports spider populations …
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Reducing high yield gaps with decision-support apps
15.01.19-
Big data
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Food security
Ethiopia is Africa’s third largest producer of maize, after Nigeria and South Africa. Although the…
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