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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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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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How India’s agrifood supply chains fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, from farm to fork
20.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Sudha Narayanan Lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food market…
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Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience
18.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Food makes up almost half of trading in the vibrant informal sector of Kenya's capital…
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New IFAD/CGIAR note on Gender and Pastoralism: Issues to consider, tools to use
17.07.20-
Gender equality
Women’s participation in community governance and local development is often limited by patriarcha…
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Phone surveys to understand gendered impacts of COVID-19: A cautionary note
14.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to evolve, researchers have been using…
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Gender research in One CGIAR: Where do we go from here?
13.07.20-
Gender equality
That’s the question gender researchers from across CGIAR will attempt to answer when they come…
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Legume farmer fab labs design seeds that work for family farms, women and the market.
10.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Protein and micronutrient-packed legumes like cowpea, groundnut, beans or chickpea are important cro…
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Malian farmer sets an example as a successful seed producer
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer field schools in Mali are not only training local farmers in best practices for…
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Women and youth turning to tree-based enterprises for livelihoods in Mount Elgon, Uganda
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the Mount Elgon region, women and youth comprise a critical labour force for farming.…
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Nicoline de Haan appointed as Director of the CGIAR GENDER Platform
08.07.20-
Gender equality
Dr Nicoline de Haan has been appointed as the Director of the CGIAR GENDER Platform,…
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Should low-income countries decentralize their COVID-19 responses?
08.07.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues As countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, some have…
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Policy seminar: Social safety nets as a COVID-19 response to protect food security and nutrition
07.07.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen As countries grapple with the health and economic shocks caused by COVID-19,…
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Field Notes: Call for government support as lockdown bites into fish processors’ profits in India
07.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lockdown restrictions in India have hit fish processors at the peak of their season and…
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COVID-19 and resilience innovations in food supply chains
06.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Thomas Reardon and Johan Swinnen Food supply disruptions in developing countries during the COVID…
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Facing COVID-19 in the highlands of Madagascar: How are the rural households and women coping?
03.07.20-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Contributed by Gaudiose Mujawamariya, Rice Value Chain Expert and Gender Focal Point, and Irina Andr…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid-19 “food pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa
29.06.20-
Gender equality
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-19 appear to be intensifyi…
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Significant economic impacts due to COVID-19 and falling remittances in Myanmar
25.06.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By: Xinshen Diao and Michael Wang As COVID-19 spreads in more low- and middle-income countries,…
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