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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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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
26.06.18-
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Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
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Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
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Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…
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Film-making farmers and the changing landscape of rice extension in Indonesia
24.06.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is time for farmers to take the lead in telling their stories and conceptualizing…
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How migration benefits economies and food security
22.06.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…
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AfDB to invest $120 million to boost cassava and others
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Development Bank (AfDB) today said it will invest $120 million in the next…
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Blogs.WorldBank.org: Secrets to successful irrigation management from Central Asia
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Environmental health
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About 60 percent of the region’s people are employed by the agricultural sector, which depends…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
19.06.18-
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Cameroon - Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood…
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World Refugee Day: Rohingya in Bangladesh camp display entrepreneurial spark
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year’s World Refugee Day (June 20) marks a grim reality: The global refugee crisis continue…
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TheDiplomat: The Impact of Migration on Water Scarcity in Central Asia
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What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?…
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Risky business: Tenure issues main deterrent for investment
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At the finance-focused Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium, land tenure was the primar…
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CIMMYT projects working to enhance business agility of South Asian seed companies
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The seed industry in Nepal, as in most developing countries, is still emerging and largely…
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2018 GFPR Stockholm Launch: Making global trade work for inclusive, sustainable food systems
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BY CHRISTOPHER RUE The global trade in food will continue to play a key role…
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Nepal’s federal transition: What are the implications for agricultural governance?
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BY DANIELLE RESNICK In the wake of violent conflict motivated by grievances over geographically-base…
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CATIE continues to improve people’s wellbeing across Latin America and Caribbean through education and research
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Ever since its inception in 1973, CATIE (the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Cen…
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Future finance: Blend, bond and blockchain
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable finance is struggling to adapt to the rapidity of global development, forcing global res…
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