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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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CATIE continues to improve people’s wellbeing across Latin America and Caribbean through education and research
13.06.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ever since its inception in 1973, CATIE (the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Cen…
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Agricultural researchers boost fight against malnutrition with staple crops
12.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Breeding research by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is generating not…
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GEF-Funded Integrated Approach Programme on Food Security Gains Momentum
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Food security
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Nutrition
In 2017, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched the Integrated Approach Programme on Fosteri…
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Using Photovoice to assess impacts of behavior change nutrition activities in Kenya
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Food security
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Nutrition
Novel ways are being explored to make nutrition interventions more effective and efficient in Kenya.…
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How governments can monitor progress towards better nutrition
04.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stochastic Impact Evaluation is being used to model the impacts of policies and other decisions…
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New report: The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life
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Nutrition
This new research report synthesizes the best current evidence on the influence of livestock-derived…
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What's so special about Science Forum 2018?
04.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In this video, Maggie Gill (ISPC Chair), Jennifer Thomson (ISPC & SF18 Steering Committee Chair)…
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ILRI and its partners celebrate World Milk Day at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo and Milk Week
02.06.18-
Health
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Nutrition
“World Milk Day 2018 celebrated at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo”https://t.co/hLL2FksULb —…
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Africa’s first biofortified pearl millet variety aims to combat anaemia
01.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
For millions of women and children in Africa anaemia is a significant public health concern—and…
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Opportunities and Challenges for CGIAR in a Changing World
31.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently convened its 17th meeting at the F…
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Major step forward in chickpea and pigeonpea research – reference genome data assembled
26.05.18-
Nutrition
Breeding high nutritional varieties of chickpea and pigeonpea just got easier. With new technology, …
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New Study: Status of Child Stunting in India
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stunting prevalence in India is high (38.4%) and varies considerably across districts (from 12.4% to…
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India’s district-focused strategy to reduce childhood stunting must also address women’s wellbeing and poverty reduction, finds new study
25.05.18-
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Nutrition
71% of differences in stunting prevalence between low and high burden districts are explained by…
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‘Is my food safe?’ – the state of current research on food safety
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Health
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Nutrition
Image: Pork on sale in a local wet market in Hanoi, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew…
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Golden Rice meets food safety standards in three global leading regulatory agencies
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Health
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Nutrition
Los Baños, Philippines, 25 MAY 2018 – GR2E Golden Rice, a provitamin-A biofortified rice…
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Excellence and Innovation in Sweetpotato: Communication for Change Award
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Food security
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Nutrition
The Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative has announced that the ‘Excellence and Innovatio…
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Groundnut researchers in Asia move towards modernization of breeding program
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The first meeting of the Groundnut Network Group-Asia (GNG-A) on 30-31 March 2018 at ICRISAT-India…
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Women at the helm of change – one-on-one with the Kyanika Adult Women Group
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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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