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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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Policy seminar: The Bridge Collaborative on bringing about bigger change faster
08.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world faces complex, interwoven development challenges. Issues such as climate change, malnutrit…
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Changing the course on gendered transitions to adulthood in Africa
08.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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The making of Bangladesh's Blue Revolution
06.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Though fish has long been the largest source of protein in Bangladeshi diets, for decades…
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Rurbanomics: The path to rural revitalization in Africa
05.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The deadlines to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate goals dr…
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2019 CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference: Promoting a quality-driven food system in China
04.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over the past seven decades, agricultural production has grown fast in China. According to a white…
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The road to women’s economic empowerment: Do women (and men) prefer on or off the farm?
01.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Poor in Africa south of the Sahara face rising disproportionate risks from extreme weather
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Weather shocks driven by climate change pose huge and still uncertain risks to the world’s…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Investments, policies, and technologies for food security in Asia and the Pacific
28.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Hunger is still on the march in Asia and the Pacific. About 518 million people…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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Achieving agricultural sustainability depends on gender equality
23.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Addressing gender inequality is essential to achieving sustainability in agriculture. High levels of…
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FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste
22.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage befo…
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A new approach to modeling: Placing sustainable development at its core
18.10.19-
Big data
In June, a team of experts in modeling and sustainable development policy making (including IFPRI's…
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When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t
18.10.19-
Gender equality
Anyone who doubts the power of information need look no further than the Arab Spring…
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Impact study demonstrates Bt brinjal eggplant variety helps farmers in Bangladesh earn more with less pesticide
18.10.19-
Food security
Eggplant, known as brinjal in Bangladesh, is a high-value crop that is widely grown and consumed t…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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