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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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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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New partnership inked with AGRA to boost improved technology uptake in Africa’s agriculture
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ICRISAT-led AVISA project is partnering with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)…
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Gender included from the ‘get go’ in global small-scale fisheries study
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Gender experts from across the globe have sought out scarce sets of sex-disaggregated data for…
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Safeguarding Gender Integration In Research During The Covid-19 Pandemic
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The COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented in its rapid transition from a localized public health emergenc…
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Safeguarding gender integration in research during the COVID-19 pandemic
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How can researchers ensure that studies inform inclusive COVID-19 responses and that data collection…
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Virtual seminar: Build on knowledge, translate to action with the 2020 Global Food Policy Report
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BY MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was written before the ou…
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Can Egypt’s fish markets empower women and men retailers equally? Prospects for change and barriers to success
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Unless gender inequalities in food systems are recognized and addressed, nutrition security and pove…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
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BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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Amidst food system shocks, we must ensure weather index insurance reaches the most vulnerable
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Floods are becoming fiercer and more frequent – and sometimes catastrophic. Across Asia, where mil…
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COVID-19 border policies create problems for African trade and economic pain for communities
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BY ANTOINE BOUËT AND DAVID LABORDE Across Africa, countries have imposed emergency border restrict…
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African stakeholders fear severe food chain impact from COVID-19
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Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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Better seeds and best practices enhance incomes for smallholder farmers in Mali
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Farmers in Mali are improving their incomes , earning better livelihoods and enjoying more fulfillin…
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Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
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BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT, ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN In many developing countries, women ofte…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
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When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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Registration systems for farmers’ varieties: Ongoing policy dialogues and experiences from the field
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Why haven’t farmers’ varieties yet found a place in national and global seed markets? And…
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IFPRI’s new COVID-19 Food Price Monitor tracks warning signs of stress in local markets
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BY MANUEL HERNANDEZ, SOONHO KIM, BRENDAN RICE AND ROB VOS Food systems are complex and the disrup…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Access to improved varieties and warrantage services helps Malian farmers save for children’s schooling
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Double yields from improved varieties, access to storage facilities and timely credit through the wa…
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Integrating displaced communities into food systems
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BY ROB VOS AND JULIA WILSON Global hunger has been on the rise for the past…
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