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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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Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems: Consensus and gaps in the literature
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BY JEMIMAH NJUKI, HAZEL MALAPIT, SARAH EISSLER AND JESSICA WALLACH A large volume of research…
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AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Ethiopian and Uzbek Women
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Beekeeping has long been a traditional pursuit in Uzbekistan and Ethiopia, where smallholders…
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Boosting Malawi’s aquaculture production for food security
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Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
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While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
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Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
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BY JAWOO KOO, CLAUDIA RINGLER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH AND CARLO AZZARRI India’s devastating second wave o…
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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali
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BY KATRINA KOSEC AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA How can women’s voices be amplified in a situation…
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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
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BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
29.04.21-
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
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BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
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The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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Gender researchers highlight approaches to achieving equal opportunities
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Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are a WorldFish-pioneered innovation that has been in contin…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
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Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
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BY WEI ZHANG AND JESSICA WALLACH Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sus…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers rare chance for food systems transformation
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both th…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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Using Wild Relatives to Toughen up Staple Crops
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Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the ancient ancestors of our domesticated crops. Because they have…
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Tana Lala-Pritchard awarded 2020 Distinguished Alumna by Alpha Chi National Honor Society
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WorldFish executive director of Strategy, Innovation, and Communications, Tana Lala-Pritchard, is…
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