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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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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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IRRI and AfricaRice collaborate on developing and delivering improved and localized rice varieties to smallholder farmers in Africa
18.03.24-
Food security
As a continuation of accelerating and modernizing the breeding programs through the Accelerating Gen…
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Trade-offs between wildlife conservation and human health and well-being in Côte d’Ivoire
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Nutrition, health & food security
What contribution does the wildlife sector make to human health wellbeing? This key question was…
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Women in dairy shine on International Women's Day: Celebrating strength and resilience
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
International Women’s Day on 8th March marked a significant milestone for Kenyan women in the…
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SHiFT’s research partner meeting: Highlights from WP1 on consumers and their food environments
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Nutrition, health & food security
In November 2023, the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Tr…
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Experience of farmers using mobile phone for farming information flow in boro rice production: A case of Eastern Gangetic Plain
11.03.24-
Food security
This research was inspired by exploring another technique farmers have adopted: accessing informatio…
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New Discovery in Peanut Defense Mechanisms Offers Hope for Disease Resistance
10.03.24-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The discovery of a natural defense mechanism in peanut that resists fungal infection holds promise…
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Navigating trade-offs towards healthier diets: SHiFT researchers host workshop in Viet Nam
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Nutrition, health & food security
Researchers from the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Tr…
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Philippine Agriculture Secretary visits IRRI Headquarters to explore collaboration opportunities for boosting rice sector
08.03.24-
Food security
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna (6 March 2024) – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) welcomed the…
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Bringing Diverse Bananas to Market
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Different genes provide disease resistance Increasingly, private industries are investing in breedin…
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Asian Mega-Deltas Initiative engages partners in strategic planning for sustainable and inclusive delta development
06.03.24-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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To strengthen its strategy, cooperation, and results management, the CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-…
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Delta Talks Live features AMD and Partners’ Innovations
06.03.24-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
The CGIAR Initiative on Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR) conducted…
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SHiFT’s research partner meeting: Highlights from WP4 on trade-off scenario analysis
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Nutrition, health & food security
In November 2023, the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Tr…
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Launch of Vendor Business School Program to Empower Small Food Vendors in Quezon City, Philippines
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
February 8, 2024, marked a significant milestone in Quezon City, Philippines as the CGIAR Resilient…
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The path forward on global food system transformation
01.03.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY CATERINA RUGGERI LADERCHI, JOHAN SWINNEN, AND TAMSIN ZANDSTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Every year,…
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When it comes to aquaculture species, Indian farmers prefer to go with what they know
01.03.24-
Food security
Fish farmers in India’s Odisha State are yet to appreciate the multiple benefits of improved…
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Rising food prices are putting children in harm’s way
29.02.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The real price of food…
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Better, or better not? The opportunities and challenges for sustainable intensification of small-scale aquaculture in Myanmar
29.02.24-
Food security
New research from Myanmar suggests that diversification in small-scale fish farming can make a posit…
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