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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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AGG-Maize project registers impressive progress
04.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat (AGG) Project, which is halfway through its…
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How well do traditional markets contribute to improving consumers’ diets in Kisumu?
04.10.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
The kind of foods made available to consumers and their affordability often influences consumer beha…
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Celebrating World Animal Day 2022 with a focus on ILRI’s research on animal welfare
04.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated…
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Livestock vaccines are supporting women's empowerment in northern Ghana
04.10.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Healthy and productive small ruminants play a key role in supporting women’s empowerment in low-…
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How does colonial heritage segment food markets? Evidence from rice consumers in Mauritania
04.10.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A key contribution of this study is the evaluation of consumer rice preferences—segments whose pre…
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AfricaRice and CERFAM join forces to support African countries to end hunger through South-South cooperation
03.10.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 3 October 2022. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the Regional Center…
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Decoding the food and culture connection to promote healthier foodways in Kenya
03.10.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Food and culture are inherently connected. What natural sources people use to obtain their food,…
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Evaluation of in vitro digestion methods and starch structure components as determinants for predicting the glycemic index of rice
03.10.22-
Nutrition
Shift in dietary practices and lower energy expenditure brought about by various socio-economic deve…
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The right time for the right place
30.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Wheat is a strategically important crop for Afghanistan because as a major source of nutrition…
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Cluster-based Farmer Field School in the polders of the coastal zone of Bangladesh: improving effectiveness of extension approach
30.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Manoranjan Kumar Mondal, Mary Ann Batas, Muhammad Humayoun Kabir, and Sudhir Yadav Bangladesh has…
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Launch of the National Agriculture Innovation and Technology Policy (NATIP) 2022-2027 (Nigeria)
29.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
26 August 2022 marked an important day for the Nigerian agricultural sector as the Federal…
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The Power of Orange: Catalyzing Delivery of Vitamin A Maize in Zambia
27.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
A brief from the CGIAR’s HarvestPlus biofortification program describes how HarvestPlus has worked…
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No end in sight yet for the global food price crisis
27.09.22-
Food security
No end in sight yet for the global food price crisis by Joseph Glauber, Manuel Hernández, David…
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SHiFT formalizes collaboration with partners in Viet Nam
26.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The new CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (…
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A Livelihood Success Story: Kenyan Farmer Coop Taps Iron Beans for Increased Incomes
23.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
The members of the Abossi Top Hill cooperative farming society in Kenya’s Bomet County have…
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Vietnam’s first ‘AGRITECHNICA ASIA Live’: An International Success
22.09.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CAN THO, Vietnam, September 1, 2022) - Almost 4,000 attendees; 80 companies with machinery demonstra…
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Integrated initiative launches in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
21.09.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
CGIAR, in collaboration with government agencies and other relevant stakeholders, held country launc…
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Breeding Resources Initiative lays out ambitious plans for support and services
20.09.22-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Nutrition, health & food security
The new breeding modernization Initiative, Breeding Resources is mapping out its ambitious plans to …
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