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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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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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A thriving community of women seed producers
26.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
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Empowered Women and an Enriched Community: The Groundnut Story of Northern Nigeria
19.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mrs Hadja Talatu Idrissa of Bunkure, near Kano, Nigeria, is the leader of a 25-women…
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Policy seminar: Building resilience by fostering gender equity at the household level
17.07.18-
Gender equality
BY GRACE COLLORD While development programs today increasingly focus on promoting resilience, such e…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
02.07.18-
Gender equality
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
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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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Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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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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Delayed Pregnancy, Reduced Open Defecation key factors in Reducing Anemia Among Indian Women
14.06.18-
Gender equality
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Health
Washington, D.C.: Reduction of open-defecation in villages, increased age at pregnancy, and women’…
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Gender takes center stage at European Development Days
14.06.18-
Gender equality
BY SARA GUSTAFSON AND HAZEL MALAPIT If we want to eradicate poverty, we need gender equality.…
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Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
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Do men and women benefit equally from technology adoption? New paper explores
18.05.18-
Gender equality
Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
14.05.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Kyanika Adult Women Group has been a significant stakeholder in Bioversity International’s work in…
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Transfer programs, child nutrition, and intimate partner violence
11.05.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for…
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Gender research in PIM: rural transformation, productivity, and women’s empowerment
04.05.18-
Gender equality
In this video, Cheryl Doss, leader of our “Cross-cutting Gender Research and Coordination” flags…
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Graça Machel wins this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development
02.05.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Graça Machel, winner of this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development (photo credit: World P…
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New Index: Pro-WEAI Measures Women’s Empowerment, Agency, and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
26.04.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Pro-WEAI measures women’s empowerment and inclusion at the project level Helps projects to identif…
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