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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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Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes
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The pressure to achieve global food security demands that we rethink current production systems and…
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Policy seminar: Rebuilding food and agricultural research institutions in a post-pandemic world
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BY HONOR DEARLOVE The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges to publicly-funded food and agricult…
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: how an upland watershed got its groundwater back
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The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Breaking through the 40% adoption ceiling: mind the seed system gaps
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Food security
A perspective from the RTB Seed Systems Community of Practice The promise is that growing…
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African project highlights importance of legume crops on World Pulses Day
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Food security
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Nutrition
Could legumes be the key to food production sustainability and climate change resilience? They consu…
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Building capacity in crop modeling today for a better tomorrow
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Young Malawian researchers are being trained in crop modeling to tackle land, water and climate…
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The crucial role of domestic and international market-mediated adaptation to climate change
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Climate change effects on agricultural yields will be uneven over the world. A few countries,…
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In the Spotlight: Quennie Vi Rizaldo
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Quennie Vi Rizaldo is a Human Nutrition Specialist at WorldFish collaborating on the USAID-funded Fi…
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In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
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Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fi…
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Building Commercial Standards to Boost Trade in Nutrient Enriched Crops
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Nutrition
In every step of commercial supply chains, purchasers look to standards to ensure that suppliers…
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Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate
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Launched by The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith, UK Minister for Pacific and the Environment at FCDO and…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes
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Environmental health
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Food security
Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Manage…
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Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’
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Food security
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Health
Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health…
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Developing operational guidance for scaling agricultural innovations in One CGIAR
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Food security
Scaling innovations has become a top priority in One CGIAR. This means to enable the…
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Scientists convene to reveal new research and tools for combatting a deadly banana disease
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Food security
“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do…
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How online decision dashboards can make evidence more accessible for decision-makers
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Food security
There is often a disconnect between science and decision-making, as the data needed to support…
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Breaking barriers to uptake of improved sorghum in Burkina Faso, one social media post at a time
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A small number of farmers pioneering seed production of a novel sorghum variety in Burkina…
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