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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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Empowering women as agents of change in hilsa conservation
08.03.22-
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WorldFish’s ECOFISH project sought to ensure sustainable use of Bangladesh’s hilsa fisheries to …
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ICTC Horizon Conference: The role of technology in building sustainability and food security
04.03.22-
Food security
BY PAUL STASTNY With global stresses rising on food and agriculture from climate change, pandemic…
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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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How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets…
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Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India
24.02.22-
Food security
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, SAMYUKTHA KANNAN AND BERBER KRAMER Lockdowns and other social distancing meas…
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Two years on, resilience innovations help food supply chains overcome COVID-19 disruptions
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BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdow…
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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century
12.02.22-
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Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate…
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The year of the Tiger and a leap into action
11.02.22-
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The Lunar New Year began on Feb 1st, 2022, bringing billions of people into the…
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
10.02.22-
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Gender equality
BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
10.02.22-
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BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems
08.02.22-
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Faced with numerous challenges to nourishing a growing population, food system researchers are looki…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
31.01.22-
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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Feed the microbes
28.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JABOURY GHAZOUL At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 26 countries pledged to int…
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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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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2020 annual report
23.01.22-
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual…
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Food systems transformation pathways: Moving from traditional to modernizing food systems
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Food security
The authors map national food system transformations in a recently developed typology, using economi…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
14.01.22-
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A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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