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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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Research: Cash transfers significantly decrease violence against women in polygamous households in Mali
22.11.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The new paper investigates the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri) on …
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Spotlight on Village Seed Entrepreneurs making money from cassava stems in Nigeria
21.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In March of 2019, we visited Village Seed Entrepreneurs (VSEs) in Benue State, Nigeria, that…
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Policy seminar: Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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In refugee crises, it's crucial to maintain environment and trees
19.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
one right from the start, refugee crises can be managed to minimize damage to the…
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From Knowledge to Income – Martha Lawrance is recognised as a leading sweetpotato vine multiplier
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Martha Lawrance is a 49-year-old woman from the Chogsia, Wa West District of the Upper…
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New challenges for women’s land rights in Africa
11.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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ICRAF and FTA host first technical discussion on the development of a gender-responsive post-2020 global biodiversity framework
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
The unprecedented and accelerating loss of biodiversity is one of the greatest crises of our tim…
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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Changing the course on gendered transitions to adulthood in Africa
08.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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Rurbanomics: The path to rural revitalization in Africa
05.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The deadlines to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate goals dr…
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The road to women’s economic empowerment: Do women (and men) prefer on or off the farm?
01.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development…
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Tanzania’s female parliamentarians to mainstream gender in climate adaptation
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Climate change has been described as a wicked problem, with complexities, feedback loops and tipping…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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CGIAR’s Inspire Challenge Awards Over US$ 1 million to Big Data Innovations
25.10.19-
Big data
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Gender equality
Over US$ 1 million worth of grants were awarded to eight winners of the Inspire…
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