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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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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
18.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
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Biodiversity
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Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
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The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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East African dairy under COVID-19: How is this vibrant sub-sector faring? Join us for a webinar 28 May
12.05.20-
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Albertina is business savy. Domingos has a knack for operations— together this husband and wife…
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
12.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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African stakeholders fear severe food chain impact from COVID-19
12.05.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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Better seeds and best practices enhance incomes for smallholder farmers in Mali
08.05.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in Mali are improving their incomes , earning better livelihoods and enjoying more fulfillin…
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COVID-19 lockdowns are imposing substantial economic costs on countries in Africa
08.05.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JAMES THURLOW Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are suffering rapid and substantial economi…
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Assessing the toll of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the South African economy
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BY CHANNING ARNDT, SHERWIN GABRIEL AND SHERMAN ROBINSON COVID-19 is expected to have major impacts…
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Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy
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A rapid and low-cost spectral technique was used to improve farmers’ understanding of their soils,…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Behind the paper: Inland fisheries are a key ingredient to reaching Sustainable Development Goals
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Where does the fish for your favorite curry, stew, or soup come from? Most often…
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Potatofied innovations: Developing entrepreneurial skills among farmers in Assam
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
There is, perhaps, no vegetable in the world as versatile as the potato. And farmers…
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Fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Some thoughts for developing countries and the international community
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Rich countries have introduced massive health and public spending programs …
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Rising market pull for dryland crops prompts move for setting up efficient seed delivery systems
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Gender equality
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Increasing market demand for dryland crops in Kenya and Tanzania owing to IFAD-funded project interv…
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Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities
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Biodiversity
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Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a ten-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good…
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Commemorating 2020 International Women’s Day: Creating an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and equal opportunity
27.03.20-
Gender equality
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An insightful panel discussion on building inclusive work spaces was the focus of International Wome…
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Participants appreciate the practicality of training in seed procurement
27.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Participants of a training course organized by the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio (PATS…
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