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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-
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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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Achieving agricultural sustainability depends on gender equality
23.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Addressing gender inequality is essential to achieving sustainability in agriculture. High levels of…
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When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t
18.10.19-
Gender equality
Anyone who doubts the power of information need look no further than the Arab Spring…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Launch of CRP-GLDC Newsletter “Gender Research in the Drylands”
15.10.19-
Gender equality
On Rural Women’s Day, 15 October 2019, CRP-GLDC launches its newsletter “Gender Research in the…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019
15.10.19-
Gender equality
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural…
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International Day of Rural Women
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) celebrates the vital role that rural women play…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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Study sheds new light on roles of women and men on RTB farms
14.10.19-
Gender equality
Results from a household survey of farmers in Rwanda and Burundi challenge our stereotypes about…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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Using vignettes to understand decision-making processes within households
08.10.19-
Gender equality
Many surveys ask who in the household makes key decisions, but most fail to ask…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
03.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities…
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Informal traders in African cities are being used as political pawns
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What’s needed to ensure that informal traders are handled fairly and humanely rather than being…
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Locally-grown fruits and vegetables can improve diets of rural women in India
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiency, is especially acute among women in India. In Mahar…
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An in-depth look at ICRISAT’s engagement in West Africa
27.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Governing Board meeting in Senegal: The strategic plan for 2020 and beyond As members of…
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A focus on gender is key to climate adaptation
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Fourth in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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More equitable crop improvement
19.09.19-
Gender equality
Ensuring plant breeders can take women into account M9 is the code name of a…
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