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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
16.05.25-
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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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Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems
09.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
06.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
05.07.18-
Nutrition
Hyderabad, 5 July 2018| India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher ir…
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Targeting open defecation, other factors accelerates anemia reduction among pregnant women in India
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT AND SUMAN CHAKRABARTI One in two pregnant women in India are anemic. This…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
02.07.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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Better data for better nutrition
29.06.18-
Nutrition
A new tool, developed by Bioversity International and partners in Kenya, will ease the burden…
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Staple Crop Yields Alone Will Not Solve Poverty
28.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
An exclusive focus on improving staple crop yields in developing countries is increasingly questione…
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Call to Action on Adolescent Nutrition demands better data
27.06.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SUNNY S. KIM, DEANNA OLNEY AND MARIE RUEL Adolescence is a critical period of biological and…
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Walmart Foundation invests nearly US$2M in ‘Farmer Market Readiness Program’ in India
27.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over 6000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh will move to an improved business model for better…
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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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IFPRI Congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on Joint World Food Prize Award
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congrat…
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Nepal and IRRI sign work plan to reinvigorate efforts towards rice self-sufficiency
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 June 2018 — The Government of Nepal, through the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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Agroforestry systems for producing nutritious food for smallholders in Odisha, India
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) South Asia Regional Programme recently launched a three-year p…
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Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries
19.06.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat,…
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A4NH releases its 2017 annual report
18.06.18-
Health
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health has published its 2017 annual…
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HarvestPlus founder joins forces with African Leaders for Nutrition
18.06.18-
Nutrition
HarvestPlus founder Howarth Bouis has joined the African Leaders for Nutrition initiative where he w…
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From Food Security to Nutrition Security
14.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
While ‘hunger’ continues to resonate as a cause deserving of funding support, focusing solely on…
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