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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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ICRISAT and Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, Collaborate for Sharing Advanced Breeding Technologies to Improve Crops that Feed Millions
12.04.18A Master Alliance Agreement (MAA) was signed between Peter Carberry, Director General (Acting), ICRI…
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Crop research needs a system of integrated labs across the globe
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY MARK ROSEGRANT Despite advances in agricultural productivity thanks to higher and more stable cro…
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Sustainable land bonds may offer a fresh path forward
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Environmental health
Tropical forest countries could soon use a new financial mechanism to access the capital they…
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The business case for seed – a public-private partnership takes root in Kenya
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in developing countries often lack access to certified disease-free planting material for ro…
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Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites …
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How to develop and manage your own community seedbank
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Ronnie Vernooy, Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Bioversity International, reports on a new hand…
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‘Contour bunding’ preserves soils and boosts farmers’ incomes by 20% in Mali – new study
11.04.18-
Food security
A new study by ICRISAT scientists in Mali has found that ‘contour bunding’, technique helps…
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Counting down: Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ loss of Borneo orangutans
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Once, there were hundreds of thousands of orangutans roaming the island of Borneo. Over the…
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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Using cognitive testing to improve measurement of women’s empowerment in nutrition and health
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Health
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Nutrition
In this blog post, Anika Hannan, a soon-to-be MPH graduate from Emory University, discusses cogniti…
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Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity?
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Humans generate heaps of waste every day. Waste rich in energy, nutrients, or water. Most…
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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration o…
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Soil health scheme for farmers in Odisha – to benefit 4.35 million farmers in 30 districts
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Environmental health
Bhoochetana, an initiative that has transformed lives of several million farmers in Karnataka, is no…
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Small businesses embrace “green” practices without financial incentives, survey shows
06.04.18Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a significant self-initiated role in sustainable and enviro…
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What can we learn from rising rice production in Senegal?
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Food security
BY KATRIN GLATZEL Ndèye lives in a small town in northern Senegal, close to the…
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Scaling sustainable rice farming practices to achieve food security in Asia
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
JAKARTA, Indonesia— Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food a…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
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Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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More cassava for less time
05.04.18-
Biodiversity
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Cassava has a relatively long growth cycle compared to other important crops. It takes an…
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