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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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Discussing the G20 Summit
09.01.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
International trade and investment emerged as the top priorities for this years’ G20 Summit, which…
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Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy
04.01.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political newcomers…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
04.01.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
04.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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Journal article: Tragedy revisited (Science)
21.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses how games could be used to help people cooperate to sustainably manage…
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Medium-scale farms are on the rise in Africa. Why this is good news
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Driven by population growth and growing land scarcity, most African farm households are witnessing t…
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G20 Buenos Aires Summit: Fostering growth and sustainability in food systems
18.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first G20 Summit, held in Washington in 2008 at…
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Why the influence of agricultural policy research is probably greater than we think
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is commonly understood that agricultural and food security policy research can influence policy o…
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Project will explore ways to boost Southeast Asia smallholders’ access to finance
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in developing countries face substantial constraints to boosting production—ch…
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Decision-support tools remove the guesswork from agronomic innovation
11.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Decision-support tools being piloted in Nigeria and Tanzania can help cassava growers decide if agro…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
11.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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Integrating Value Chain research across CGIAR
10.12.18-
Big data
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early October 2018, PIM’s Flagship on Inclusive and Efficient Value Chains hosted a workshop…
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Why Nigeria urgently needs to grow non-oil exports
10.12.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The economy of Nigeria has had to navigate a major crisis that started with the…
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Understanding cassava seed networks to curb disease spread in Southeast Asia
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If you have a garden, you probably buy seeds from the store, or maybe even…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
06.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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WEBINAR: Aspirations, trust, and poverty reduction
05.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding the psychological dimensions of poverty is critical for understanding how to alleviate…
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