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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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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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Only 7% of agricultural innovation investment targets environmental outcomes, finds CoSAI study
21.08.21-
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Colombo, August 20, 2021 With the world's population set to grow beyond 9 billion by…
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Investing USD 15.2 billion more in innovation will bring food, climate and water goals into reach
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Colombo, August 13, 2021 If the Global South is going to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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Back to the land: Research helps farmers sequester soil carbon
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Hydrologist Wuletawu Abera grew up in a small-scale farming family in Ethiopia, now he's uncovered…
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Seed giants must collaborate or be dwarfed by threat of climate change
17.08.21-
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed vast inequalities when it comes to food security. But there…
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Well-designed agroforestry enterprises protect forest land from degradation
11.08.21-
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By Dr. Akmal Akramkhanov, ICARDA Senior Scientist - Sustainable Land Management, and Anastasiya Shyr…
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G20 Matera Declaration calls for investing more and better in food systems to achieve Zero Hunger
10.08.21-
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BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Global hunger has been on the rise since 2014,…
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Transforming The Agricultural Research Agenda With Aquatic Foods
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Aquatic foods are not just good foods, they are superfoods with the power to nourish…
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Scientists explore Bacillus strains to control fungus spread in bananas
30.07.21-
Environmental health
The Fusarium wilt TR4 is ravaging banana plantations around the world. The Alliance of Bioversity…
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An example of best practice
23.07.21-
Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is contributing to make Mexico’s agr…
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T20 Climate Forum: The post-pandemic future of food
21.07.21-
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BY SWATI MALHOTRA On top of climate-driven shocks, conflicts, and economic stresses, the COVID-19 pa…
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Groundwater to play a key role in transforming Africa's food systems, finds AMCOW event
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Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pivotal in the transf…
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Successful water planning platform and its irrigation source mapping tool rapidly scaled out
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Six water-thirsty departments in western Honduras began experimenting with the online water planning…
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South Asian and African countries use data from space to act fast on drought
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When drought starts to set in somewhere in South Asia or Africa, there is no…
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Improving food donation policies is key to fighting food waste
16.07.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EMILY BROAD LEIB AND DOUG O'BRIEN As much as one third of all food produced is…
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“I see your point!” How data visualization and facilitating access to data can help stakeholders make more impactful decisions
15.07.21-
Big data
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Environmental health
How to tailor data visualization and evidence sharing for improved stakeholder uptake and applicatio…
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UNFSS Science Days: Groundwater can play a key role in transforming Africa’s food systems
14.07.21-
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pi…
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UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation
13.07.21-
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According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Repor…
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UNFSS Science Days: Promise of the commons for sustainable and equitable food systems
13.07.21-
Environmental health
BY HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The commons (natural resources held and used collectively) sup…
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