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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-
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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Global Food Policy Report–EAT-Lancet Commission launch in The Hague: Rural revitalization and sustainable diets
01.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
How do two major reports with different emphases on the relationship between nutrition and agricultu…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Conference: Confronting the challenges in transforming Ethiopia’s economy
30.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in recent decades, but is now confronting mounting economic c…
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How we can protect the world's most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
29.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globall…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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Policy seminar: Rohingyas displaced to Bangladesh face an uncertain future
23.07.19-
Gender equality
In 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into southeastern…
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The intersection between climate change, food, and migration
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today, the global food system finds itself facing major challenges. Mainly, they relate to changing…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
18.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In recent years, the global fight against chronic hunger and undernutrition has focused increasingly…
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Ghana’s ten percent agricultural expenditure saga: Why reported government expense shares are less than meets the eye
17.07.19-
Food security
In 2003, African countries signed the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAAD…
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What's the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
16.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve …
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Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth
16.07.19-
Nutrition
Investing in young children’s nutrition yields substantial economic benefits to society. But that …
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V4CP meeting: The power of hard evidence in impacting systems change
12.07.19On June 13-14, SNV and IFPRI held our annual Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) meeting to refle…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
11.07.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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Conference: Challenges of eliminating child labor in agriculture and food chains
28.06.19-
Gender equality
Around the world, more than 70% of child labor is found in the agriculture sector—an…
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Policy Seminar: Faster than you think – renewable energy and developing countries
27.06.19-
Environmental health
Ten years ago, predictions for the adoption of renewable energy around the world made it…
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Don't miss the BIMSTEC bus: Regional integration with South Asia-Southeast Asia bloc brings advantages for India
25.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the VIPs at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in for a second term May…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
24.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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