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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-
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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Access to genetic analysis accelerates banana breeding in East Africa
22.11.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Banana producers face many pests and diseases that affect their crop, such as Panama disease…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on a toolkit for improved chickpea varieties
21.11.21-
Food security
Nature Reports published an open-access paper on a big plant-genome sequencing study conducted by IC…
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Participatory approaches key to unlocking the benefits of aquatic foods
18.11.21-
Food security
Fish-based livelihoods are the backbone of Pacific island economies, offering a critical source of f…
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Optimizing seasonal-spatial crop production to improve its economic-environmental performance in Bangladesh
17.11.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY MAN LI, ZHE GUO AND WEI ZHANG Excess nitrogen produced by agricultural activities, mainly…
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What is the cost of the food we waste and how can we change behaviours to address this growing challenge?
15.11.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
During COP26, when climate change is high on the agenda, and political leadership scrutinized for…
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Access Agriculture hosts farmer learning videos that are based on the best blend of science and farmer creativity
12.11.21-
Food security
When Access Agriculture started as a new, international NGO in 2012, we realized the importance…
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WLE at COP26: Sustainable water solutions essential to climate change adaptation in agri-food systems
08.11.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water is essential for all of Earth's ecosystems and the food systems they support. However,…
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Managing climate variability with smart and innovative climate information services
08.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Aquatic foods -- diverse animals, plants, and microorganisms grown and harvested from water -- are…
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WLE at COP 26: Becoming climate-resilient through innovative farming solutions
07.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A Water Pavilion side-event at the UN's Climate Change Conference (COP26) addresses tech-savvy and i…
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Education: An invaluable power tool for tackling global crises
07.11.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
The current biodiversity, climate, water, land and human global crisis demands that we look closely…
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From Research to Resilience: Climate-smart solutions to enhance ecosystem health and strengthen food, nutrition and water security for all
06.11.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
The WLE-hosted webinar series "From research to resilience" took place through the month of Oct…
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Improving fish supply chains for food and livelihood security in Southeast Asia
05.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Throughout deliberations at last month's United Nations’ Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), global lead…
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Does gender determine how one experiences climate change?
05.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change is one of our most critical and complex global challenges. Sea-level rise and…
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Rice-potato rotations increase profitability and food production
03.11.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Adding a winter crop of potatoes to rice cultivation can increase farm profitability and food…
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COP26 policy seminar: Combating climate change impacts on food systems
02.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY KARLA ESTRADA As climate change impacts escalate, food systems around the world and the…
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RTB develops an Innovation Catalog to close the research-development gap
02.11.21-
Food security
Information gap One of the challenges for research for development organizations is to ensure their…
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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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ICARDA Scientists Study the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Production and Its Consequences on Human Health
26.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Health
Around the world, especially in dry areas, agricultural practices are affected by climate change a…
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