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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-
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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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Improved cassava varieties are becoming a key ingredient in global food security
29.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Little known in most highly developed countries, the root vegetable cassava has been largely ignored…
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Testing the climate adaptation pioneer approach in Colombia
27.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the CGIAR Livestock and Climate Initiative, we're extending the Pioneers of Adaptation approach t…
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Why climate change is a greater threat to tropical rainforests than cropland expansion
26.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY RICKY ROBERTSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 When I was child, back in the late…
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Tools for using the International Rice Genebank to breed for climate-resilient varieties
26.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Traditional rice varieties have been critical for developing improved stress-tolerant rice varieties…
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Funding this pioneering project in Colombia hailed ‘a very wise decision’ for the German government
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A project aiming to advance climate change mitigation and peacebuilding in Colombia has received pra…
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Crop Diversity: A Tasty Way for Keeping Our Options Open
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Crop diversity is often overlooked in climate discussions, yet it's crucial to adaptation: we need…
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Meet the AgriTech4Uzbekistan Finalists
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
22 Innovation Teams and 45 Participants, Driven by the Ambition to Make an Impact in…
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Merging High-tech and Ancient Water Management Systems for Global Food Security
25.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Today, we face a myriad of water-related challenges, ranging from water scarcity and drought (due…
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A guiding framework to boost Science and Practice of scaling innovation and three new roles to drive it
21.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scaling innovation is becoming increasingly important in the world of agricultural research for deve…
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Smallholder farmers in Kongwa District, Tanzania, use the iSAT advisory tool to better manage climate risks
21.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
To help smallholder farmers make better agricultural decisions and reduce the negative effects of cl…
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RiceMoRe System revolutionizes rice production monitoring and reporting in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta
20.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Mitigation
The Mekong River Delta is undergoing a remarkable digital transformation in the region’s rice prod…
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Desafiando el status quo: Cómo las Semillas Disruptivas pueden transformar los sistemas alimentarios de Guatemala desde abajo
19.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A la luz de la actual crisis climática, debemos repensar profundamente la forma en que…
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Joint submission endorsing the inclusion of food systems in the outcome of the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement
18.09.23-
Mitigation
The CGIAR Initiative on Low-Emission Food Systems has contributed to a submission in response to…
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Mitigate+ at Climate Week NYC 2023: Wei Zhang to talk about the role of women in climate mitigation in food systems
18.09.23-
Mitigation
What is the role of women in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from food systems? How…
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Transformative adaptation: Reorienting the climate response from climate-smart to climate-resilient
17.09.23-
Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Social inclusion
Agriculture is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and thus both a contributor to…
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Conservation agriculture helps smallholder farmers to be more resource efficient
15.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Millions of rural Indians, mostly farmers, are at the mercy of changing weather and climate…
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WorldFish positions Aquatic Foods at high-level regional agenda
15.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Transforming Aquatic Food Systems (AFS) in Africa to develop and harness their potential requires jo…
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Africa Climate Summit advanced tree restoration pledges but a big seed shortage remains
14.09.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Restoring degraded landscapes with the help of trees is a major, worldwide goal. But new…
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