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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
10.12.19-
Big data
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Food security
Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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Overlooked, underused crops: An answer to our food system problems?
09.12.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
A recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rang alarm bells about the…
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2019 ReSAKSS Annual Conference: Gender equality in rural Africa, from commitments to outcomes
06.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Third in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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Policy seminar: Countries pivotal actors as food systems transform
05.12.19-
Food security
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Health
Food systems in developing countries are undergoing a rapid transformation, much of it shaped by…
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Is research capturing the multiple, overlapping climate risks farmers face?
04.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Second in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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Evidence and lessons from a 3-year research study on agricultural extension in Malawi
03.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agricultural extension services are among the most important factors driving smallholder farmers’ …
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How is economic security linked to gender-based violence? New insights from the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2019
02.12.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The relationship between economic insecurity and gender-based violence is complex and poorly unders…
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Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
27.11.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Foodborne disease is a significant threat to global health, and food safety is a growing…
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
26.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean
25.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The social upheavals occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have equally impacted co…
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Policy seminar: Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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Can we ignore risk when we study the effects of climate change on agriculture? Research in Zambia tells us that we should not
20.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries and those im…
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Some lessons from a life in food policy
19.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
When I was 15 years old, I learned something startling about myself. For the first…
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Million Farmers' School program can be a key element in doubling Indian farmer's incomes
15.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes…
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How do earthquakes shape economic behavior?
14.11.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The economic cost of natural disasters is usually expressed in physical terms: Destruction of assets…
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Policy seminar: What made Malawi’s community childcare centers successful platforms for an agriculture and nutrition program
13.11.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Community-based early childhood development centers have long provided affordable, quality care for …
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Policy transformation for achieving the SDGs: Can translational research help?
12.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take major transformations of the …
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New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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