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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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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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UN Chronicle: Coming to grips with water security in the face of climate change
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Environmental health
How people in high-risk areas of Africa and Asia can come to grips with water…
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural fields…
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Agriculture Minister, key stakeholders praise progress of Golden Rice in Bangladesh
13.03.18March 6 2018 - DHAKA, BANGLADESH – “Bangladesh will march forward on Golden Rice” said…
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Harvest time Nigeria! Aflasafe moves from research to nationwide commercialisation to protect food from deadly aflatoxin
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Health
Today, Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria – takes a giant stride forward in the…
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Breaking ground: Mike Olsen uses new technology to improve farmer’s yields
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Food security
Global challenges to agriculture such as climate change, crop diseases and pests mean that the…
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LAUNCH EVENT: 2018 Global Food Policy Report
12.03.18Mar 20, 2018 - 09:30 am to 11:00 am EDT Special Event LAUNCH EVENT: 2018…
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Can WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets contribute to women’s empowerment and nutrition?
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Food security
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Nutrition
In 2017, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) published a report on a five-country…
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Register now for the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
12.03.18The 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. APRS provides …
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Scaling-up opportunities for unfavorable rice environments
12.03.18Centering around the theme: “Capitalizing on gains made: Towards enhanced nutrition, livelihood, a…
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IRRI, Paul Hastings LLP collaborate to strengthen legal agreements with private organizations
12.03.18IRRI extends its gratitude to Paul Hastings LLP for its excellent work in helping the…
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How rice plants “manage” water under drought
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an…
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How women’s empowerment shapes children’s schooling, nutrition
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Health
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Nutrition
Improvements in the status of women has often been shown to have positive impacts on…
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IITA, icipe, CABI: Developing a strategy to combat invasive species in Africa
08.03.18-
Biodiversity
IITA, together with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) and the Centre…
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Women in agriculture: The extra value we bring
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Gender equality
The women of IITA join millions around the world in celebrating the International Women’s Day…
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Scientist’s fuel-efficient stove-for-work program in Ethiopia protects trees
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Environmental health
Ethiopia has experienced significant deforestation over the past century – driven by rapid populat…
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International Women’s Day
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and infl…
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International Women's Day: Self-help groups aid communication, empowerment in India
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Gender equality
March 7, 2018 IFPRI Blog Neha Kumar Kalyani Raghunathan Agnes Quisumbing International Women's Day: …
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CIMMYT promotes gender awareness in agriculture research and development in Ethiopia
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Gender equality
Gender awareness and gender-sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, ex…
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