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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-
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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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The response to the global food crisis must address the needs of women and girls
31.08.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
The response to the global food crisis must address the needs of women and girls…
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Cereal seed systems
29.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
For certified seed to reach a farmer’s field for cultivation, it passes through many hands…
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Call for cases: Integrating gender into breeding objectives and decisions - what works, where and why?
25.08.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Do you know of a plant breeding effort that is trying to have more gender…
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Text reminders encourage more women to seek family planning services: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
24.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND KYLE PICO Modern contraception and family planning have substantial health be…
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USAID-AfricaRice project sets the stage for a resilient, vibrant seed industry in Senegal
23.08.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
An innovative public-private partnership-based project, led by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) w…
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WorldFish renews Memorandums of Understanding with top research universities in Malaysia
23.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
WorldFish signed today Memorandums of Understanding with Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and Univers…
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Supporting Nepal’s hill farmers to enhance their livelihoods through mixed farming
22.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Social inclusion
The hilly region of Nepal faces low productivity issues in the mixed farming system due…
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CGIAR’s SAPLING Initiative targets Uganda’s pig and cattle sectors to expand benefits for farmers
22.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR’s SAPLING Initiative targets Uganda’s pig and cattle sectors to expand benefits for farmer…
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‘Growing opportunities’: New WorldFish and university partnership in Timor-Leste enables first marine science students to graduate
17.08.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Youth
WorldFish and the National University of Timor-Leste (UNTL) have signed a new 10-year agreement to…
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Emerging Youth: Nan Win Htwe
12.08.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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Youth
Nan Win Htwe has been working in her Southern Shan State family-owned fish hatchery for…
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Emerging Youth: Saifuddin Rana
12.08.22-
Youth
Saifuddin Rana is a native of Bangladesh’s Chattogram. Through a platform called FishBooth, the …
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Opportunities abound for investors in Africa's low-value species market, says WorldFish
09.08.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The organization is trying to create a climate-change resilient tilapia that can withstand higher oc…
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Women’s leadership in the Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus in Nepal
02.08.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Social inclusion
Social justice and equity must drive a sustainable approach. Women and disadvantaged groups need equ…
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How research stations can be more gender-inclusive
29.07.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Both science and agriculture are often male-dominated. But this is starting to change as women…
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Leveraging on multi-utility waterbodies to sustainably produce aquatic foods in India
28.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Ponds are one of nature’s major freshwater resources and an ecologically important lentic habitat …
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The missing link: Making women part of the response to the global food crisis
26.07.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Learning from past crises can help us ensure an inclusive, gender-equitable response to today’s gl…
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Improving Rural Nutrition Security with Nigeria’s Women in Agriculture Program
21.07.22-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
In Nigeria, women play key roles in food and nutrition security through their contributions to…
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Establishing inclusive resource management models in the Pacific
14.07.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
July 28 marks the 2022 instance of Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demand…
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