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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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Applying the science of scaling
17.10.18-
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A new RTB initiative is applying the science of scaling to accelerate promising agricultural technol…
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Overcoming the roadblocks to ending poverty
17.10.18-
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Twenty-five years after the United Nations first declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
14.10.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington DC: Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, des…
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Competitive outsourcing to private contractors can improve public service delivery
12.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JORDAN KYLE Delivering public services effectively is essential for development. Yet governments …
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International Day of Rural Women
12.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Groundwater is notoriously difficult to manage. One cannot easily see how much is available, who…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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Biodiversity
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
11.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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WEBINAR: Measuring policy distortions along agricultural value chains: Lessons from Africa and Asia
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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Model offers new approach to account for intangible factors driving microfinance group loan performance
08.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ, YANYAN LIU AND SARA GUSTAFSON Many households in developing countries lack…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the key role of agriculture in developing country growth
05.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rapid growth among many developing countries over the past generation has profoundly reshaped their …
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Innovative scorecard system helps to better allocate poverty program investments
04.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ AND SARA GUSTAFSON Sustainable Development Goal 1 calls for the end of extr…
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Farmer-to-farmer learning is boosting aquaculture in Sierra Leone
02.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Sierra Leone, where commercial small-scale aquaculture is in its infancy, FISH is developing and…
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A bureaucratic catch-22: Study in Bangladesh shows how safety nets can overlook the poorest
01.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AKHTER AHMED AND JULIE GHOSTLAW Around the world, governments and development partners make hard…
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Fish farmers celebrate tilapia harvest in Timor-Leste
01.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste (PADTL), a five-year project funded by …
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IFPRI report: How China and Africa can promote cooperation in agricultural modernization
28.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG AND LIWEN ZHANG Agriculture is key to improving food security and reducing poverty…
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Mobile phone app launched to strengthen new insurance scheme for India’s farmers
21.09.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The scheme aims to provide more than half of Indian farmers with crop insurance within…
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