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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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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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Transforming aquaculture in DRC: TAAT empowers fish farmers with key technologies and training
14.10.24To enhance fish production and processing in the province of South Kivu, the African Development Ba…
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Building Resilience: Investment Blueprints for Rwanda’s Smallholder Farmers and Value Chains
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Nutrition, health & food security
Agricultural risk management (ARM) is crucial for smallholder farmers who bear some of the greatest…
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IFAD Agrihub project holds a job fair, and experts advise youths to embrace careers in the agricultural sector
14.10.24The IFAD Agrihub project, a key initiative implemented by IITA, played a pivotal role in hosting…
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Zero Hunger Project launches three seed certification protocols in Togo
14.10.24IITA–CGIAR and the Ministry of Agriculture, Village Water Supply, and Rural Development, Togo, ha…
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Fighting cassava’s deadliest enemies in western Kenya
14.10.24Cassava production in western Kenya is being threatened by an army of pests and diseases…
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Rural Women Reviving Forgotten Crops
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Despite their vital contribution to agriculture, rural women frequently face significant barriers to…
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Breaking the cycle of poverty through Mechanized Farming: The Story of Madhuri Mallick
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
(Photo:) Madhuri was happy using this power reaper as it reduced her drudgery and also…
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Sustainable Homestead Farming for Better Food and Nutrition Security in Bangladesh: Farida Begum’s success story
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Nutrition, health & food security
Bushra Humaira Sadaf This article highlights Mrs. Farida Begum’s success in improving food securit…
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Advancing direct-seeded rice technology in northern Bangladesh through mechanized clustered demonstration
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Food security
Muhammad Ashraful Habib, Swati Nayak, Nuruzzaman, Saidul Islam, and Amaresh Chandel Agriculture is t…
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Five ways crop breeding can benefit rural women
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Gender equality
Five ways crop breeding can benefit rural women Updated version. Originally published in 2021 on…
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Building on Bundelkhand Pilot Success: Uttar Pradesh Officials Explore Expansion Avenues
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A high-level delegation from the Government of Uttar Pradesh recently visited four villages in the…
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Women's network for environmental advocacy and climate resilience: a model for social innovation
12.10.24Available in Spanish In the current global context of climate change, the IPCC (2023) has…
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Red de mujeres para la defensa del medio ambiente y la resiliencia climática: un modelo de innovación social
12.10.24Available in English En el contexto mundial actual de cambio climático, el IPCC (2023) ha…
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Global Food Policy Report 2024: Improving governance to create supportive environments for diet and nutrition policies
11.10.24By Danielle Resnick and Aditi Chugh October 11, 2024 Part of a series on key themes of IFPRI’s…
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Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: New policies are needed to keep the peace
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Over the past decades, heavy and more frequent rainfall and dry spells in southern Africa…
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Crisis at the crossroads: Climate, peace, and security in the Sahel
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Sahel is at the heart of a crisis exacerbated by extreme climatic conditions, which…
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Growing into Pumpkin Custodians: Women farmers in North Vietnam discover the power of participatory variety selection
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Nutrition, health & food security
As Typhoon Yagi wreaked havoc across parts of Vietnam in early September 2024 - leaving…
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From Risk to Resilience: How Strategic Government Partnerships Can Enhance Access to Insurance-Linked Credit for Smallholders in Zambia
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
by Martina Mascarenhas, Anne G. Timu, Liangzhi You Smallholder farmers across the globe produce over…
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