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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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From Land Productivity to Labor Productivity
04.12.18-
Food security
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“Not all of CGIAR’s objectives are maximized by increasing yield alone; if we want to…
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AgriLinks.org: Final report on Tajikistan water users association impact evaluation
03.12.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
USAID commissioned the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) to examine the impact of USA…
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West Bengal agri-entrepreneur a role model for farmers in her community
29.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Hosneara Bibi is a farmer in the village of West Ghughumari, in the Cooch Behar…
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WEBINAR: Community forest concessions in Petén, Guatemala: Effective governance for tropical forest conservation and socio-economic development
29.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The devolution of forest rights to local communities is seen as a critical element of…
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Delivering more with less: Subnational service provision in low capacity states
28.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The new paper examines how subnational variation in capacity affects access to agricultural extensio…
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RTB Annual Meeting 2018: “Staying the best”
26.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The annual meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) took…
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Three weeks to make tastier, healthier crop residues for animal feed
23.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A 21-day treatment process to improve the nutritive value as well as taste of crop…
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How ICRISAT saved a lifetime’s worth of water over just three years
23.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT-Patancheru has been saving over 100,000 liters of potable water every day since 2015. That…
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In Africa, more not fewer people will work in agriculture
21.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Many people in Sub-Saharan Africa still work in agriculture; on average, over half of the…
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NEW STUDY: Urbanization associated with lower rates of child stunting but higher rates of obesity among women
20.11.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C: Urbanization is changing the landscape of health and nutrition in Africa, and in…
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ColdHubs: Addressing the crucial problem of food loss in Nigeria with solar-powered refrigeration
20.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For the young tomato farmer from Kano in northern Nigeria, Ahmed, the clock starts ticking…
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Breeding improved cassava varieties that women and men want
20.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding gender differences in trait preferences for cassava can accelerate adoption as this kn…
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New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
16.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in…
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New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
16.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in…
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Significant progress in pearl millet pre-breeding to develop drought- and blast-resistant varieties
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Efforts to develop pearl millet with improved resistance to drought and blast disease recently got…
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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Pest distribution and risk atlas for Africa includes potato and sweetpotato pests
13.11.18-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Insect pests cause major yield losses in agricultural crops. Climate change is expected to exacerbat…
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Lessons from Latin America: Using less, earning more
13.11.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abílio Rodrigues Pacheco is a landowner in the Brazilian state of Goiás who works for…
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