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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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Social safety nets are crucial to the COVID-19 response. Some lessons to boost their effectiveness.
18.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Daniel Gilligan The poor and other vulnerable groups are suffering the most negative consequences…
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2020 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Building up food systems with inclusiveness and competitiveness
18.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Donghe Li The COVID-19 pandemic has created huge uncertainties for public health and economies…
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COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
17.06.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Corinna Hawkes The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food…
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Interview: IFPRI's Johan Swinnen on the COVID-19 pandemic, food security, and building future resilience
12.06.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The following is a transcript of a World Food Program-USA (WFP-USA) Hacking Hunger podcast inter…
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Study suggests that climate smart agriculture can boost yields, reduce hunger and emissions globally
11.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY ALEX DE PINTO AND NICOLA CENACCHI Climate change is a threat to agriculture production around…
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Trust in science and in government plays a crucial role in COVID-19 response
10.06.20-
Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Control of epidemic diseases relies on public compliance with government decisio…
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World Food Safety Day 2020: COVID-19 offers an opportunity for India’s food systems to deliver on safety and health
05.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY DEVESH ROY The second annual World Food Safety Day (June 7)—with the theme “food safety, ev…
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Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
04.06.20-
Environmental health
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Health
BY CLAUDIA SADOFF AND MARK SMITH Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; …
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COVID-19 is shifting consumption and disrupting dairy value chains in Ethiopia
01.06.20-
Food security
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Health
BY AGAJIE TESFAYE , YETIMWORK HABTE AND BART MINTEN COVID-19 has disrupted food systems in many co…
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Virtual seminar: Build on knowledge, translate to action with the 2020 Global Food Policy Report
29.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was written before the ou…
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Virtual event: COVID-19 and the global effort to end food loss and waste by 2030
22.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, TINE HASLING RASMUSSEN AND JILLIAN HOLZER Can we meet Sustainable Development…
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Leveraging local knowledge to map and link agricultural plots to farmer practices
22.05.20-
Food security
BY JONATHAN R.B. FISHER, YUTA J. MASUDA, WEI ZHANG, TIMOTHY BOUCHER AND CAROLINA CASTILLA Linkin…
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Survey suggests rising risk of food and nutrition insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 restrictions continue
21.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KALLE HIRVONEN, GASHAW TADESSE ABATE AND ALAN DE BRAUW Countries have taken varied actions to l…
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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
20.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
15.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
14.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
12.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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