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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-
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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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Protecting Scarce Dryland Water
22.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…
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Deadlock over UN treaty for high seas keeps developing countries at a disadvantage
19.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
The livelihoods of millions worldwide continue to be at risk after UN Member States failed…
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Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics
15.03.22-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…
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Farmers Can Get Ahead of Locust Swarms
09.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for…
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Aquatic foods offer a sea of opportunities to combat climate change
03.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
WorldFish’s research and innovation in climate-resilient and sustainably managed aquatic food syst…
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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
02.03.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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
01.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
10.02.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
31.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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To protect the world’s vital wetlands, we must invest in science
31.01.22-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As the world prepares to celebrate World Wetlands Day, IWMI reflects on the transformative power…
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Evaluation Case Study: CGIAR Ontologies Community Of Practice
20.01.22-
Big data
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Environmental health
Evaluations offer a chance for reflection, as well as an opportunity for improvement. They unravel…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
20.01.22-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
14.01.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Can remote sensing identify successful agricultural water management interventions in smallholder farms?
04.01.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
Food security in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries hinges on smallholder farms, most of which are…
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The year in review: Reflecting on a busy and productive 2021
29.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A major highlight for IWMI in 2021 was our robust participation in the COP26 climate…
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A behavioral perspective on improving water governance in India
29.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS FALK, DENNIS SCHÜPF,WEI ZHANG AND ILKHOM SOLIEV India is globally the largest groundwater…
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Accelerating rural energy access in the race to net zero
28.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Policy and action research by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems to…
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A ‘probiotic’ approach to agriculture is better for people and planet (commentary)
26.12.21-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Reversing biodiversity loss is a critical component of limiting climate change and vice versa, but…
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