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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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26th Annual CORRA Meeting Highlights the Importance of Rice for Global Food Security
20.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The annual meeting of IRRI, NARES partners and officials emphasized that strengthening the partnersh…
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What do we know about the future of agri-food systems in Eastern and Southern Africa?
19.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Kindie Tesfaye, Faaiqa Hartley, Timothy S. Thomas, Sika Gbegbelegbe, and Sherwin Gabriel Food, la…
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CGIAR One Health Initiative seeks to improve meat hygiene in slaughterhouses in Western Kenya
18.12.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
A large share of foodborne illness is due to contamination of animal-source foods with pathogens.…
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CGIAR One Health Initiative pilot project seeks to improve food safety in Vietnam's traditional markets
18.12.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
In Vietnam, pork is the most widely consumed meat and over 90% of this is…
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Food systems transformation cannot occur without leadership from public institutions
16.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Can food systems transformation occur without public institutions playing a leading role? This contr…
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Sustainability of rice production in the Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains
16.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Rice is a vital crop for India, contributing around 30 percent of calories consumed in…
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When the remedy is worse than the disease: Agricultural policy in Punjab, India
15.12.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
By Avinash Kishore and Claudia Ringler Twenty-five years ago, when the Chief Minister of Punjab…
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The Kenyan government welcomes the launch of CGIAR Food systems accelerator program
15.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Saba Ermyas CGIAR’s regional initiative Ukama Ustawi (UU) partners in the East and Southern…
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The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation
14.12.22-
Food security
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century,…
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Joining hands in Mali to discuss business models for a new thermotolerant peste des petits ruminants (PPR) vaccine
13.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) disease is a major concern for the livestock sector in…
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IRRl engages with Indonesian govt, leading telecom company for Rice Crop Manager Project
13.12.22-
Food security
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Health
To support Indonesian rice farmers with science-based decision-making and help contribute to the Ind…
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Will innovation be the true game-changer of food systems transformation?
09.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
How innovations, which have been recognized to contribute to the current resource-intensive, wastefu…
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Whole crop optimization provides a viable pathway for sustainable intensification of barley-livestock farming systems
07.12.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
“Barley is the King of Crops!”. This is a popular phrase among farmers in Ethiopia.…
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The 2nd FAO WASAG International Forum
07.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
ICARDA’s Soil, Water and Agronomy (SWA) Team, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organiz…
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Food systems that work for people and the environment
02.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Alice Ruhweza, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Board Member and Africa Reg…
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EatSafe project to host webinar on food safety innovations for traditional markets
02.12.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
The World Health Organization estimates that every year, 600 million people become ill and many…
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Using information and cognitive dissonance to nudge children toward healthier food choices in Viet Nam
01.12.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
Among children and adolescents, 5 to 19 years old, overweight and obesity increased from 8.5…
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One Rice Breeding Network and Crop Tour 2022 in India create a unified understanding, communication, and learning for researchers
01.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Various breeding trials are in place across India and have been happening for years as…
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