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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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Bamboo: a sustainable alternative for bioenergy production in Indonesia?
23.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Indonesia - For thousands of years, people in Indonesia have used bamboo for a huge…
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Three weeks to make tastier, healthier crop residues for animal feed
23.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A 21-day treatment process to improve the nutritive value as well as taste of crop…
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Wild coffee plants, Christmas trees and chocolate’s tree are surprisingly poorly protected
21.11.18-
Biodiversity
Urgent action is needed to protect thousands of useful wild plants, according to new research;…
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Ten Questions & Answers about ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
20.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In late 2017, several illegal attempts were made to sell parcels of land at Kapiti…
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Restoring land and increasing resilience needs women
20.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Raising awareness of gender equity and equality is critical for Africa’s future, with workshops li…
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Uganda’s biodiversity plan: challenges and ambitions
19.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Uganda and other developing nations explain the challenges of meeting global targets for biodiversit…
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In the mountains of China and Ethiopia lies a joint future
02.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Mekelle University, Kunming Institute of Botany and the World Agroforestry Centre are sharing knowle…
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Moving away from silos, working towards ‘synthesis’ of learnings
02.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A special ‘Synthesis’ issue that collates research outputs from participating CGIAR centers was …
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Ramsar Convention COP13
25.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.…
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Strengthening farmers' seed systems in China
23.10.18-
Biodiversity
Dr. Yiching Song, Senior Researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy o…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
22.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton: Learning new ways to maintain and use valuable resources
18.10.18-
Biodiversity
A look back at the career of the retiring Head of the T.T. Chang Genetic…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
11.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on farm animal diversity for more sustainable and resilient global food systems
25.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this week ma…
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More than a thousand vegetables, many of them forgotten
19.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Bioversity International and partners reveal that most of the world's vegetable species are poorly …
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Regenerating crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
18.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…
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