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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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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Choosing between supermarkets and wet markets
13.01.20-
Food security
Food safety and better nutrition are real and serious challenges facing billions of people in…
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Sensory profiles help cassava breeders develop desirable new varieties
12.01.20-
Food security
Detailed and descriptive profiles of different kinds of gari in Benin have been established through…
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Multi-stakeholder workshops for food systems profiles at the A4NH benchmark sites along Vietnam’s rural-urban transect
10.01.20-
Food security
Between August and November 2019, three workshops were held in Vietnam to share preliminary results…
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How Uganda’s millet drink ‘bushera’ saw a revival and India’s peanut ‘chikki’ went to Zambia
10.01.20-
Food security
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Health
If school children in Uganda have taken to a super-nutritious traditional fermented millet drink cal…
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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people
10.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously…
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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
09.01.20-
Food security
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
08.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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Food imperatives in context of the agriculture, nutrition, and environment nexus
08.01.20-
Food security
IRRI Representative for South Asia Dr. Nafees Meah is the guest editor for “Food…
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Advancing state goals with better rice varieties: Bihar Principal Secretary of Agriculture visits ISARC
08.01.20-
Food security
ISARC Director Dr. Arvind Kumar tours Government of Bihar’s Principal Secretary of the Depa…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
07.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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Knowledge for a Sustainable Food Future: New Foresight Tool Examines Impact of Agricultural Investments
07.01.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
How can we feed 10 billion people by 2050? How much and in what ways…
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Farmer Business Schools can help make smallholder agriculture a profitable enterprise
27.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The idea of doubling Indian farmers’ incomes by 2022, when the country completes 75 years…
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Building an Africa without hunger
19.12.19-
Food security
Thirty-two scientists from 21 countries graduated from the African Plant Breeding Academy, led by U…
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New CGIAR ‘GENDER’ Platform and investment announced to build more inclusive agricultural benefits and greater food security in developing countries
19.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, 18 December 2019 — CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,…
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The CGIAR Value Chains Community of Practice 2019 workshop: Methods for Diagnosing and Evaluating Agricultural Value Chains
18.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The workshop, organised by PIM and Wageningen University and Research, brought together the CGIAR Co…
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Prevention is better than cure
16.12.19-
Food security
Whenever seed is transferred between countries, continents or regions there is an inherent risk that…
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Can weather index insurance help farmers adapt to climate change?
13.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Fourth in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under…
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