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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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CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets studies micro, small, and medium enterprises in Viet Nam’s fruit and vegetable supply chains
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
In 2022, the CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiF…
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Regional war, global consequences: Mounting damages to Ukraine’s agriculture and growing challenges for global food security
27.03.23-
Food security
by Pavlo Martyshev, Oleg Nivievsyi and Mariia Bogonos OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Russia’s all-out …
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Rapid modern wheat variety adoption key to supply chain security in Malawi
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are helping to scale up…
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IRRI, USAID, and Bayer launch global DSR initiative “Scale Direct” for Asia and Africa smallholder farmers
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
09 March 2023, India - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Bayer agreed…
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Linking farmers and markets in Ethiopia: the durum wheat value chain
27.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
How would market systems be improved by shortening a value chain that involves many operators…
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IFPRI-AMIS policy seminar – Ukraine One Year Later: The impact of the war on agricultural markets and food security
24.03.23-
Food security
by Charlotte Hebebrand OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 With the Russia-Ukraine war entering its second year,…
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World Water Day 2023: Cooperation for accelerating change in the Niger River Basin
24.03.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY NIANDOU MOUNKAILA, OUSMANE SEIDOU, CLAUDIA RINGLER, AND ROBERT KRANEFELD OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4…
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New study explores the drivers of antibiotic use in poultry farms in Senegal
23.03.23-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
A new study on antimicrobial use in poultry farms in Senegal has analysed the effects…
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Journée mondiale de l'eau: Coopération pour accélérer le changement
22.03.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY NIANDOU MOUNKAILA, OUSMANE SEIDOU, CLAUDIA RINGLER, AND ROBERT KRANEFELD OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.…
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Enriching seed systems: IRRI-Africa collaborates with partners to enhance rice seed production in Tanzania
22.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Moshi, Kilimanjaro, 28th February - 02 March 2023 - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)…
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Agroecological TRANSITIONS: Inclusive digital tools to scale smallholder agroecology
22.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
The EU-IFAD Agroecological Transitions for Building Resilient, Inclusive, Agricultural and Food Syst…
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A seed systems success story
21.03.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Stewards Global, trading as Afriseed, is a Zambia seed systems intervention success story. Thanks to…
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HarvestPlus and Heifer International Partner in India to Tackle Malnutrition
20.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
A new partnership between HarvestPlus and Heifer International (Heifer) will enrich the diets and li…
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Efectos generados al sistema alimentario por afectación en la Vía Panamericana en Rosas Cauca
18.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
El sistema alimentario es un conjunto de procesos que va desde la producción de alimentos…
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Strengthening partnerships with government and private sector in Malawi
17.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
Goal 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals calls to “Strengthen the means of…
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This is a man’s world: Gendered perceptions of Ugandan agro-input dealers
17.03.23-
Food security
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Gender equality
by Anusha De, Caroline Miehe and Bjorn van Campenhout OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Esther (a composite …
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Rapidly urbanizing food environments in Africa: Policies for achieving food and nutrition security
16.03.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
This post first appeared on the Agricultural & Food Policy blog. Increasing urbanization is tran…
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Cash, COVID, coup, crisis: A pre-pandemic maternal and child cash transfer program had sustained dietary benefits during Myanmar’s ongoing emergency
15.03.23-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
by Derek Headey and Elisa Maffioli OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Myanmar—its economy, society, and polit…
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