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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Meeting with the academy to share the importance of applying science in public policy
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies21.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Click to read the Spanish version of this blog. On April 21, the Colombia team…
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What do we know about the future of land in relation to food system transformation?
CGIAR Initiative on Foresight21.06.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Ricky Robertson and Nicola Cenacchi Food, land, and water systems face daunting challenges in…
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Novel crowdsourcing solution enables continuous diet quality monitoring at a national scale
CGIAR Initiative on Digital Innovation20.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Food systems around the world face a 'triple burden' of malnutrition: undernourishment, micronutrien…
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SHiFT attends 2023 Nutritious Food Systems Grantee Convening
CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets20.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
In March 2023, researchers and partners from the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets throu…
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CGIAR announces new breeding data strategy and endorses single data platform
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources20.06.23-
Big data
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Nutrition, health & food security
To boost the efficiency and sustainability of its data-driven breeding efforts, CGIAR has endorsed a…
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Malawian Women In Agriculture Post Cyclone Freddy
CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa20.06.23-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Manual labour, land, input, finance, education on how to scale and bridge the gaps presented…
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Opinion | Women Farmers And Technology: Key to Driving Agri Revolution in India
CGIAR19.06.23-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
When farmer Malho Marndi first adopted new, mechanised planting practices on half of her sixteen-hec…
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Narok on the way to becoming a One Health champion county in Kenya
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)16.06.23-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
On 4–5 May 2023, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Government of Narok…
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New evidence shows food price crisis threatens to deepen undernutrition in young children in low- and middle-income countries
CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets15.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Food price crises have become the new normal over the last two decades, but what…
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The Reference Diet Deprivation (ReDD) index: A new diet quality measure for more effective nutrition-sensitive policies
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.06.23-
Nutrition
Karl Pauw, Olivier Ecker, James Thurlow, and Andrew R. Comstock OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Poor…
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CGIAR Initiative on One Health hosts workshop in Ethiopia to strengthen regional and global research partnerships
CGIAR Initiative on One Health14.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
On Wednesday 26 April 2023, the CGIAR Initiative on One Health held a workshop in…
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IRRI-Africa completes training of trainers on quality rice seeds production in Burundi
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (12 May 2023) A training of trainers on quality rice seeds production was…
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Pathways and determinants of sustainable energy use for rice farms in India
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.06.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
In the North-western Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India, long-standing policies of providing highly …
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Access and control of resources and participation in rice-breeding activities among men and women farmers in Southern Ghana
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women in Ghana have been found to adopt high-yielding varieties and improved management systems at…
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Food security is a national security issue everywhere
CGIAR13.06.23-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
This article was originally published by Global Bar Magazine in Swedish: here Professor Lindiwe Maj…
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Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface: Collaborating with Kenya's Stakeholders and Policymakers to Inform Agricultural Policy Formulation and Operationalize Recommendations from the 1st Kenya Food Systems Conference
CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies12.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The policy engagement workshop held in Naivasha from 2nd to 4th May 2023, organized by…
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Cultivating Resilience in East and Southern Africa Through Climate-Smart Seeds
CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa12.06.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
As the impacts of climate change continue to cause concern across the world, more than…
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Catalyzing Scaling in East and Southern Africa: Unlocking the Region's Potential
CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa10.06.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
East and Southern Africa, with its diverse landscapes, rich natural resources, and a burgeoning popu…
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