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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
16.05.25-
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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Increasing farmer’s’ income through post-harvest technologies and value chain upgrading
07.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI aims to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia by delivering comprehensive…
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Making landscape finance more inclusive
07.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new initiative aims to share issues and best practice for increasing inclusive, responsible financ…
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How closing livestock yield gaps can enhance incomes, food security and the environment in Ethiopia and India
06.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding livestock yield gaps for poverty alleviation, food security and the environment is a r…
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Where REDD+ money goes – and doesn’t go
05.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
REDD+ financing’s annual average of USD 323 million might sound like a lot on its…
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Strengthen markets to aid India's farmers
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AVINASH KISHORE The Indian government’s renaming the Ministry of Agriculture as the Ministry …
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Africa RISING looks back at what the project achieved in ‘intensifying’ agriculture in its first five years
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa RISING is implementing activities with youthful farmers in Bababti District, northern Tanzani…
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How trade wars threaten food security
30.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY WILL MARTIN AND DAVID LABORDE What began as heated rhetoric over trade between the United…
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A brief explainer of how REDD+ finance works
30.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In one of largest ongoing efforts to tackle climate change, projects happening the world under…
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From 'Look East' and 'Act East,' India must 'Think Big' and 'Act Big'
29.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANMEET AJMANI AND DEVESH ROY India's Republic Day Jan. 26 marked a significant change in the…
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Using the ‘four powers’ to tackle land use dilemmas
21.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Exclusion from land is inherently negative. A handful of actors hold all the power to…
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Helping Vietnam transform its rice sector through sustainable rice production practices
18.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI works with key partners in boosting Vietnam’s rice industry through the “Vietnam Sustainabl…
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In ecotourism, trotting the globe to help protect it
17.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On the edge of Sumatra’s Leuser National Park, Tanganan village offers days spent hiking to…
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Scientists meet to tackle challenges facing root, tuber and banana seed systems
16.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Have you ever wondered what the potatoes, cassava, bananas and sweetpotatoes you eat are grown…
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Bangladesh Government honors former IRRI Agronomist Dr. Md. M Abdul Mazid for contributions to Bangladeshi food security
16.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dhaka, Bangladesh—25 March 2018—The government presented the “Swadhinata Padak 2018” award t…
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Oil palm for the people
15.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Palm oil might seem an odd proposition for reducing poverty and preserving rainforests. In recent…
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Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
14.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global…
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Strategic investments and Scientific Award announcements mark ICRISAT’s 84th Board Meeting
11.05.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The announcement of new strategic investments for research, marked the 84th meeting of ICRISAT’s G…
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IRRI shares Rice Crop Manager experience during the 10th ICT4D Conference
11.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through partnership with national research partners, IRRI applies sustainable global solutions to lo…
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