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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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Reviving the pulse in food security
09.02.21-
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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How women’s empowerment can expand crop diversification as a climate adaptation strategy in Bangladesh
05.02.21-
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Gender equality
BY ELIZABETH BRYAN, ALEX DE PINTO, GREG SEYMOUR, PRAPTI BHANDARY AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN Bangladesh’…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
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Gender equality
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ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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PIM News: January 2021
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this issue, covering January 2021, we are happy to share our recent and upcoming…
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Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
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Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti…
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Study: Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
01.02.21-
Gender equality
Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside…
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WIRES: Newly launched platform to connect and inspire women in research across CGIAR
29.01.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new employee-led group, formed to support and celebrate women in science and research at…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
28.01.21-
Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
28.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, GUUSH BERHANE, JOHN HODDINOTT AND KIBROM TAFERE Multiple studies have documented…
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Using priming experiments to better understand gender attitudes
26.01.21-
Gender equality
by Katrina Kosec, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo, Emily Schmidt, and Jie Song Sticky gender attitudes? Research…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
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ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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Gender research rightfully takes center stage in new One CGIAR strategy
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, January 26 2021—Gender equality is rightfully elevated to a top priority in a…
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How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom
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Environmental health
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Every year, 12 million young people enter the labour market across the African continent. Economists…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
22.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Forest tenure pathways to gender equality: A practitioner’s guide
19.01.21-
Gender equality
Virtual launch event January 29, 2021, 9:00-10:00 AM EST Forest tenure pathways to gender equality…
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Nutrition-sensitive approaches from pond to plate in Myanmar
19.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Looking at aquaculture through a nutrition lens is leading production and dietary shifts toward dive…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
19.01.21-
Biodiversity
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Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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WEF event: Building gender equitable food systems
13.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
By SOKHNA SALL SECK Empowering women and girls and the recognition and respect of their…
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