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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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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
15.10.18-
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On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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How gender shapes responses to climate change: New tools for measuring rural women’s empowerment
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BY SOPHIE THEIS AND ELENA MARTINEZ This year’s International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) focu…
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Lessons from an early adopter of sorghum technologies in Kitui, Eastern Kenya
15.10.18-
Gender equality
As a gender researcher working in dryland agricultural research, one of the outcomes we strive…
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International Day of Rural Women
12.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Groundwater is notoriously difficult to manage. One cannot easily see how much is available, who…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
09.10.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nu…
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Playing a bigger role in global monitoring of SDGs
09.10.18-
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Gender equality
UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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IFPRI Partnership on Small Scale Irrigation Research Extended Five More Years with $12.5 Million Grant
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October 5, Washington, D.C.: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a f…
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A bureaucratic catch-22: Study in Bangladesh shows how safety nets can overlook the poorest
01.10.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AKHTER AHMED AND JULIE GHOSTLAW Around the world, governments and development partners make hard…
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Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation
28.09.18-
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A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…
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Empowering women farmers through Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) in Northern Ghana
25.09.18-
Gender equality
A study in Northern Ghana revealed that lack of access to finance often hinders productivity…
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What’s in it for gender researchers when it comes to UN Women’s gender and SDGs report?
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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Designing for gender inclusivity in video-enabled agricultural extension
20.09.18-
Gender equality
It was busier than usual in the village of Nabitula—25 km north of Namatumba in…
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Call for proposals: ‘Feminization’ of agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities
05.09.18-
Gender equality
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is calling for research proposals on the topic…
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Identifying challenges and constraints experienced by women smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
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Food security
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Gender equality
The Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab’s socio-economic and gender equity research team expl…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
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Food security
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Gender equality
GENNOVATE is a global comparative research initiative that uses qualitative methods to address how g…
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Sustainably managing non-timber products to improve livelihoods, equity and forests
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New Guidelines for Equitable and Sustainable Non-timber Forest Product Management offer field-tested…
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Understanding gender norms and innovation processes to foster gender-equitable opportunities in forest landscapes
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Gender equality
Gender researchers present findings from Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan that shed light on how gender norm…
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