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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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: InvestigaciĂłn para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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IRRI’s new NARVI initiative engages the private sector to accelerate global impact of improved rice varieties
12.07.22-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is leading a new initiative called Network for Acce…
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IRRI and AGRA strengthen partnership to address Africa's food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
27 June 2022, Nairobi - International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Director General Dr. Jean BaliĂ…
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Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh
30.06.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
#ResearchSpotlight Over the past three decades, the Philippines and Bangladesh have made huge invest…
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From cool to warm: Making temperate japonica rice more widely available to farmers in tropical Southeast Asia
30.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
In the past 29 years, the Germplasm Utilization Value Added (GUVA) project ihave delivered six…
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Genetic gains research to transform smallholder chicken farming in Southeast Asia
30.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The International Livestock Research Institute-led Asian Chicken Genetic Gains project is improving …
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AgriLAC Resiliente presented in Guatemala
28.06.22-
Food security
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Mitigation
Representatives from CGIAR leadership, CGIAR Centers, government and other stakeholders stand for a …
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Egyptian Stakeholder Consultation on CGIAR’s Integrated Desert Farming Innovation Platform
26.06.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Egyptian partners and stakeholders will join CGIAR and ICARDA in Cairo, Egypt on the 28th…
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IITA to collaborate with Arise IIP to create sustainable value chains
24.06.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On 14 June, Dr Adeola Odedina, Commissioner for the Ministry of Agriculture, Ogun State, Nigeria,…
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It is time to invest in the future of Afghanistan’s wheat system
22.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
A wheat field of Bamyan (Photo credit: Nigel Poole, SOAS University of London) The UN…
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Philippine DA and IRRI launch legacy site on 2016-2021 collaborations
17.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
To highlight the highly successful partnership between the two organizations, the Philippine Departm…
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New study reviews strategies to reduce acaricide resistance in ticks in smallholder livestock systems in Africa
15.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ticks are a major cause of economic losses in the livestock sector in the tropics…
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Michael Haddad delivers Seeds-for-Life to Svalbard Vault
12.06.22-
Food security
Paralyzed Lebanese Athlete and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Michael Haddad completed a 5-kilom…
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Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty
10.06.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Much of the early attention on the Russian-Ukraine conflict’s food security impacts has been conce…
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The Russia-Ukraine crisis presents threats to Nigeria’s food security, but potential opportunities for the fertilizer, energy sectors
09.06.22-
Food security
The current rise in global market prices for major food commodities almost mirrors that of the…
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Short-term policy considerations to respond to Russia-Ukraine crisis disruptions in fertilizer availability and affordability
08.06.22-
Food security
As we discussed in our previous post, fertilizer prices have increased drastically, +230%, since Ma…
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Can the G7 be a force for good in the current global food security crisis?
06.06.22-
Food security
The Group of Seven wealthy nations (G7), currently led by the German presidency, has put…
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"Our seeds could start the next Green Revolution."
30.05.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This year’s World Biodiversity Day holds a particular significance for us at ICARDA. Just days…
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Vegetable oil prices soar, far outstripping other food inflation (Washington Post)Â
19.05.22-
Food security
Vegetable oil prices soar, far outstripping other food inflation (Washington Post) Washington Post …
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