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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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Interventions for women’s empowerment and repercussions for family welfare: Evidence from Uganda
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, KELLY JONES AND MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN Empowering women is a goal of many development …
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How can Agriculture Research for Development Inform the Sustainable Development Goals?
17.12.21-
Gender equality
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24…
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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique
15.12.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to…
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See, understand and hear the women who deal with climate insecurity
10.12.21-
Gender equality
With Kenya in the grip of a drought resulting in 30% less water, women are…
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Five ways gender research can better support women: Messages from rural women
10.12.21-
Gender equality
This year’s Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems confer…
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Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
09.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO Do ambitious women tend to be more empowered in…
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The politics of knowledge: Reclaiming the gender narrative across agri-food systems
01.12.21-
Gender equality
The colonization of knowledge in agri-food systems has many implications for the way we think…
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In the Spotlight: Faridul Haque
30.11.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish researcher Faridul Haque explains how his work can lead to gender transformative change wi…
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ICARDA’s livestock-based innovation success story gets an award
24.11.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICARDA’s work on Community-Based Breeding Programs in Ethiopia is carried out as part of t…
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Unpacking the effects of a complex intervention on women’s poultry production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
23.11.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JESSICA LEIGHT, JESSICA HECKERT AND AULO GELLI Integrated interventions aimed at improving both l…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
22.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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Book launch: The road towards WTO MC12 for Latin America and the Caribbean
14.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY THOMAS WHAMOND With the approach of the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (WTO MC12) Nov.…
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Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge for Better Farming Today
11.11.21-
Gender equality
The 'Indigenous Knowledge Research Infrastructure' (IKRI), a brand-new online catalog that compiles …
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Gender-based violence threatens food security but can be tackled
05.11.21-
Gender equality
“Anything given to my wife is given to me”, explained a man in a gender-dialogue…
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Global Food 50/50 Report: Assessing gender, diversity, and power in food system organizations
27.10.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KARLA ESTRADA Although women are key actors in across food chains and the global…
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Country workshops to discuss the future of CGIAR research in CWANA
26.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Building on the July CWANA consultations, CGIAR led by Mr. Aly Abousabaa - Regional Director…
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Economic workshop: Fostering China’s integrated urban-rural development
19.10.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY QIYUN HUANG China faces ongoing challenges integrating the economies of its rural and urban…
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Rural women revolutionize the fight against malnutrition in Odisha, India
15.10.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Linking locally-sourced aquatic foods with food and nutrition policies in the coastal state of …
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