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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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How two agricultural development projects boosted women’s empowerment
07.11.18-
Gender equality
When we talk about women’s empowerment, it is difficult to grasp what we actually mean.…
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NEW STUDY: Cash Transfers coupled with Behavior Change Communication sustainably reduce violence against women
02.11.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication can reduce vio…
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Designing gender-sensitive and climate-smart technologies: a must for the future of Guatemalan agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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A recent National Geographic article opened with the shocking headline: “Changing climate forces d…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
22.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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Discussion paper: What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
18.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the princi…
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The elusive quest for the perfect chicken
16.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A team of researchers investigating chicken diseases in Ethiopia has discovered that there is far…
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International Day of Rural Women 2018
15.10.18-
Gender equality
To celebrate the International Day of Rural Women on October 15th, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform…
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Gender mainstreaming in value chain development triggers women’s empowerment in Uganda
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Gender equality
A gender focus introduced in value chain development in Uganda has allowed women and men…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
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Environmental health
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On this occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias…
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From agronomic practices to gender norms and agency in banana disease management
15.10.18-
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On the International Day of Rural Women, our researcher François Iradukunda reflects on how a…
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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
15.10.18-
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On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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How gender shapes responses to climate change: New tools for measuring rural women’s empowerment
15.10.18-
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BY SOPHIE THEIS AND ELENA MARTINEZ This year’s International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) focu…
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Lessons from an early adopter of sorghum technologies in Kitui, Eastern Kenya
15.10.18-
Gender equality
As a gender researcher working in dryland agricultural research, one of the outcomes we strive…
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International Day of Rural Women
12.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Groundwater is notoriously difficult to manage. One cannot easily see how much is available, who…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
09.10.18-
Gender equality
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Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nu…
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Playing a bigger role in global monitoring of SDGs
09.10.18-
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UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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