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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-
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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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Experts discuss the impact of climate change on tick-borne pathogens in western, central and eastern Africa
15.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Africa is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, impacting the emergence, re-emergence …
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Ground-breaking new genebank unveiled in Colombia to help climate proof food systems across the tropics
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
The world’s largest genetic library for beans, cassava and tropical forages has been officially op…
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A new model of pathogen transmission in developing urban landscapes
15.03.22-
Health
Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute, the University of Edinburgh, the Uni…
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The Russia-Ukraine crisis poses a serious food security threat for Egypt
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global food security—creating suffering within Ukraine …
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Overcoming the threats to global food systems from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
11.03.22-
Food security
BY CARIN SMALLER The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world, leading to terrible…
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Championing equitable aquatic food systems at the 2022 One Ocean Summit
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
The 2022 One Ocean Summit convened global policymakers to discuss translating commitments into tangi…
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Farmers Can Get Ahead of Locust Swarms
09.03.22-
Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for…
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Improved forages empower smallholder women livestock keepers in Kenya and Ethiopia
09.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change is a global challenge that burdens all humanity, but not equally. The rural…
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Shaping a gender-inclusive COVID-19 response in aquatic food systems
09.03.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
COVID-19 mitigation measures created unique challenges along gendered lines, and inclusive policy re…
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Empowering women as agents of change in hilsa conservation
08.03.22-
Food security
WorldFish’s ECOFISH project sought to ensure sustainable use of Bangladesh’s hilsa fisheries to …
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ICTC Horizon Conference: The role of technology in building sustainability and food security
04.03.22-
Food security
BY PAUL STASTNY With global stresses rising on food and agriculture from climate change, pandemic…
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Coherence or cross-purposes? Building national coalitions for transformative evidence-based policies
04.03.22-
Nutrition, health & food security
Despite well-intentioned policies and economic growth over the last decade, major inequalities persi…
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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
02.03.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as…
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Using participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the poultry sector in Ethiopia
01.03.22-
Health
A new case study on the poultry sector in Ethiopia reports on the first use…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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The remarkable life of Alexandre Yersin
01.03.22-
Health
Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), a Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist who made extraordinary contri…
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How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?
24.02.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets…
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Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India
24.02.22-
Food security
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, SAMYUKTHA KANNAN AND BERBER KRAMER Lockdowns and other social distancing meas…
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