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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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Giving and taking between husband, wives, and co-wives
03.05.19-
Gender equality
Over 40% of women in many West African countries are in polygynous marriages—the practice of ha…
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Ending undernutrition requires a different focus on stunting
26.04.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Anyone following international development is probably familiar with “stunting”—which in nonte…
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IFPRI/A4NH at the Purdue Global Hunger Colloquium: Policy innovation is key to accelerating progress
22.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Leading figures in the global fight against hunger gathered at Purdue University April 10-11 for…
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Earth Day 2019: Building common ground on sustainable governance of commons
19.04.19-
Environmental health
The celebration of Earth Day (April 22) reminds us that all species, including Homo sapiens, shar…
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Who benefited from the Congo's peace dividend?
17.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In several respects, the first decade of the 21st century was a golden opportunity for…
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Are we reducing hunger in the world?
17.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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The research-practitioner divide: Why we are still optimistic
16.04.19-
Food security
Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects for…
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IFPRI Signs MoU with Indonesia’s Ministry of Planning
12.04.19-
Food security
April 12, 2019, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and th…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report Malawi launch: Reforming agriculture for rural revitalization
12.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and ineq…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
11.04.19-
Nutrition
The dinghy ride up the Ramu River takes nine long hours, but my excitement mounted…
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Policy seminar: Who will feed India?
10.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Who will feed India? The country’s population will soon be larger than China’s, economic growth…
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Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier
09.04.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cash transfers are promising interventions to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but more evide…
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How countries around the world are leveraging agriculture to improve nutrition
08.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
At times, engaging the agriculture sector to improve nutrition seems like an uphill battle. In…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report launch: Rural revitalization is key to ending hunger, improving livelihoods worldwide
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
As the world faced a difficult 2018—with ongoing conflicts, climate-driven disasters, and politica…
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Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial
05.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Cyclone Idai struck Beira, the fourth largest city in Mozambique, in mid-March with torrential rain…
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Why India needs a land leasing framework
04.04.19-
Food security
PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) is one of the largest income support schemes for small…
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Cash transfers and intimate partner violence
03.04.19-
Gender equality
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally, with one in three…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute hunger in 2018
02.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world’s humanitarian assistance and spending needs have more than doubled over the past decade…
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