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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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Lessons from a decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
03.03.22-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EMILY MYERS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since its launch in 2012, IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment…
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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
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Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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New hotspot mapping reveals where climate change hits women the hardest
25.02.22-
Gender equality
Women are more at risk of experiencing adverse climate change effects in some areas than…
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Top 10 gender research reads from 2021
18.02.22-
Gender equality
In our series of recommended reading lists, gender experts provide starting points for researchers, …
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
10.02.22-
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BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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Emerging Youth: Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha
24.01.22-
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Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Imoran Farms Nigeria L…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
20.01.22-
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Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
11.01.22-
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BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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2021 was the year of collaboration in breeding informatics
10.01.22-
Gender equality
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6RfglCQkI[/embed] In March 2021, a new network of specialis…
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Accelerating financial inclusion of women in agri-food systems: What works?
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Avni Mishra, Ranjitha Puskur, Linda Etale One cannot refute the contribution women provide to the…
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Dietary diversity among men and women in rural Sri Lanka
31.12.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY DEANNA OLNEY,BESS CASWELL, RENUKA SILVA AND MALIKA FERNANDO Poor quality diets are the leading…
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A brighter future: The relationships between cash transfers, mental health, and investments
30.12.21-
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BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA AND SHALINI ROY Mental ill-health is a significant disease …
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Water rights are women’s rights
29.12.21-
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Why water rights are women's rights and how better research can deliver both. Agriculture in…
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Launching the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
23.12.21-
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Integral to food and nutrition security around the world, artisanal fisheries and aquaculture are …
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CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
22.12.21-
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The CGIAR Research Program on Fisheries Agri-Food Systems (FISH) came to a successful conclusion aft…
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Cash transfers and women’s decision-making in Egypt: Still a man’s world
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY HODA EL-ENBABY, DANIEL O. GILLIGAN, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA, YUMNA KASSIM AND SIKANDRA KURDI …
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