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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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Accelerating adoption of climate-smart agriculture: Reaching women farmers in Uganda with video extension
07.11.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
Women play a vital role in agricultural production in low-income countries, but often lack the…
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Take a Look in the Mirror to Transform Gender Roles
18.10.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Restrictive gender norms can limit whether and how women benefit from agricultural innovations. Yet …
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Eradicating poverty by nurturing the youth in aquaculture technologies
15.10.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Youth form the largest segment of the population in Africa and the world at large.…
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Understanding rural women’s situations to generate gender-equitable benefits
14.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Results from a project led by the International Potato Center (CIP) to commercialize sweetpotato in…
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Collective action and perseverance pay off for women rice farmers in Madagascar
14.10.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Modernization of agriculture requires farmers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and sustain the pr…
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CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform launched at GENDER Science Exchange
14.10.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Headlining the CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange this week (October 12-14) was the relaunch of the…
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International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture
13.10.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agr…
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The critical role of smallholder farmers of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in the global food chain
13.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) are vulnerable to climate change and face tremendous challenges, i…
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Is uptake of rust-resistant wheat linked to gender equality?
10.10.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Farmers, development practitioners and scientists gathered at Tropentag 2022 between September 14-…
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Stepping up for South Asian women
07.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women play an integral role in all stages of agrifood systems, yet their unpaid labor…
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AfricaRice and CERFAM join forces to support African countries to end hunger through South-South cooperation
03.10.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 3 October 2022. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the Regional Center…
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Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
28.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
A new special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights nine influential papers published i…
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Can we accelerate gender equality?
22.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In an introductory essay for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 Goalkeepers report, Melind…
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Breeding Resources Initiative lays out ambitious plans for support and services
20.09.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
The new breeding modernization Initiative, Breeding Resources is mapping out its ambitious plans to …
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The MountainHER project kicks off!
19.09.22-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rabat, Morocco, 20 September 2022 - Under the leadership of Dr Rachid Mrabet of INRA Morocco, exp…
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Staying alive: Navigating water, gender and poverty inequalities in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt
16.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women’s increasing roles in irrigation in Egypt, as well as across the MENA region cannot…
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Leveraging the expertise of institutions in East Malaysia for a sustainable aquatic food system
16.09.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
East Malaysia, separated from Peninsular Malaysia by the South China Sea, comprises the Borneo state…
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To ease the world food crisis, focus resources on women and girls
01.09.22-
Gender equality
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Social inclusion
Learn from past crises to protect women and girls from hardship and combat the food…
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