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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-
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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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Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
23.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of…
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‘Move out, move up’ approach could ease India’s farm crisis: IFPRI chief (The Hindu)
23.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Hindu published an article in which IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, outlines how a …
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
21.03.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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PIM pre-conference workshop on rural transformation at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Selected papers
14.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
PIM will convene a pre-conference workshop "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challeng…
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RTB and CIP scholarship for Peruvian students to attend World Potato Congress
14.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the International Potato Center …
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
13.03.18-
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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International Women’s Day
08.03.18-
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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Ugandan Emma Naluyima describes her thriving pig+crop farm at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
07.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Emma Naluyima, a Ugandan veterinarian and one-acre pig and crop farmer, making a presentation at…
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GASL’s Fritz Schneider on livestock and the SDGs at Berlin’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
06.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Fritz Schneider, chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), making a presentation …
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Livestock are taking the limelight in global policymaking fora
21.02.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, detail of one of the many monumental bull figures—the bull being…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition
08.02.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
February 8, 2018 Guest post Justin Yifu Lin Agriculture is key for economic transformation, food…
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“…An exceptional opportunity to promote up-and-coming African researchers”
02.02.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program ma…
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FTA’s research domain on livelihood systems receives strong rating
29.01.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo by SK Dalal/ICRAF Following the revision and resubmission of Flagship 2 on livelihood system…
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Good investments in agriculture and forestry can benefit smallholders and landscapes
16.01.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo by Pilar Valbuena/GLF With companies increasingly being seen as key partners in scaling-up eff…
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ILRI and Chinese partners launch new livestock projects, review ongoing research collaboration
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has worked on livestock research-for-developme…
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