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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Lockdowns are protecting China’s rural families from COVID-19, but the economic burden is heavy
30.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Scott Rozelle, Heather Rahimi, Huan Wang and Eve Dill COVID-19 lockdowns have major impacts on…
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COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some…
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Policy seminar: Sustainable trade and the EU-Mercosur Agreement
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In 2019, the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay)…
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Commemorating 2020 International Women’s Day: Creating an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and equal opportunity
27.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An insightful panel discussion on building inclusive work spaces was the focus of International Wome…
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Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
25.03.20-
Gender equality
Women play a crucial role in Ethiopian agriculture. A significant portion of their time is…
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Reflections on Uganda’s seed systems: building opportunities and addressing constraints
25.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
A blog by the RTB seed system research cluster to reflect on lessons from field…
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Nutrition, gender and breeding modernization: Focal points of West and Central Africa research agenda
20.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The spotlight was on biofortification, gender equity and breeding program modernization at the recen…
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Tackling the root causes of gender inequality through research (Modern Ghana)Â
13.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
By Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini R…
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More than a bank: Rethinking the IADB
10.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second of two parts. Read the first here. As the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) enters it…
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More than a bank: Reflections on the history of the Inter-American Development Bank
09.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First of two parts. In 2019 the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) celebrated the 60th annive…
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On this International Women’s Day 2020, ILRI commits to strengthening women’s rights in livestock systems and enterprises
07.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) i…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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Towards equality for women and men in root and tuber agri-food systems
06.03.20-
Gender equality
UN Women notes that 2020 represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gend…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
05.03.20-
Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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