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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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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: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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IRRI and ACB: Igniting partnerships for ASEAN agrobiodiversity
14.02.23-
Biodiversity
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Food security
IRRI’s Director Jean Balié and Deputy Director General for Strategy, Engagement and Impact, Joann…
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Reinvigorating food production in Nepal: strengthening the irrigation–agriculture nexus
13.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Manju Adhikari, Nirman Shrestha, Krishna Kumar Mishra, Sunil Kumar Singh and Santosh Nepal Nepal…
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Tapping irrigation potential: exploring challenges and solutions in Western Nepal
13.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Pabitra Gurung, Nirman Shrestha, Dinesh Bhatta, Kapil Gnawali, Bala Ram Upadhyaya and Santosh Nep…
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2022 highlights of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology
10.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
The second newsletter of the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology reflects on last year's progress with…
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In the Spotlight: Faye Aborina Siota
10.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Faye Aborina Siota is a senior research analyst at WorldFish in the Solomon Islands. Her…
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Direct seeded rice: what are the benefits, potential and suitability in Haryana, India?
07.02.23-
Environmental health
By Proloy Deb, Virender Kumar and Amit Srivastava Rice is one of the most widely…
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Nexus thinking for sustainable irrigation
06.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Women in science can speak for women in the community for the benefit of all…
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Asia's 'blue capital' can help alleviate hunger and poverty
02.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An irony of the current global economic system is that it is depleting the very…
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“Revive and Restore Degraded Wetlands”, what will it take?
01.02.23-
Biodiversity
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Mitigation
Wise use calls for balance between maintaining key wetlands functions while not unduly restricting w…
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Working with Blue Guards to protect the marine biodiversity in Bangladesh
01.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Youth
The world’s oceans are home to an estimated 94 percent of the world's organisms. Roughly…
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Measuring the prevalence of the use of toxic chemicals for tick control in Uganda
26.01.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Richard Ariong, Jordan Chamberlin (CIMMYT), Sarah Wairimu Kariuki and Bjorn Van Campenhout (IFPRI…
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Keep on flowing: the importance of freshwater corridors in the Amazon
25.01.23-
Adaptation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
The Amazon rainforest and basin are crucial for the balance of the Earth's environmental systems…
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Modeling the Incomati river basin to enhance transboundary benefit sharing
09.01.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Naga Velpuri, Mikiyas Etichia, Jonathan Lautze and Edward Mswane Shared by Eswatini, Mozambique a…
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Engaging with stakeholders and establishing Agroecological Living Landscapes: Overall reflections
31.12.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Bernard Triomphe and Nadia Bergamini, Work Package 1 coordination, with inputs from country…
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Food System Actors engaged in the cocreation of agroecological innovations - Results of Year 1 engagement in seven countries
30.12.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Simone Staiger-Rivas and Gabriela Wiederkehr (both Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), based on init…
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A new frontier: building innovative partnerships to catalyze new rangelands restoration opportunities
30.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Rangelands are having a moment. Their productive values, their environmental importance and the peop…
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Supporting the development of agroecological business models by linking food system actors along the value chain
29.12.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Manuel Narjes (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), Boubaker Dhehibi (ICARDA), Christine Chege (Allia…
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Supporting policy and institutional decision making towards agroecological transformations: Initial activities of the Agroecology Initiative
29.12.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Aymen Frija (ICARDA), Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI), Frank Place (IFPRI) Agroecology calls for …
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