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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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Fight against fall armyworm in Asia benefits from experience in other regions
31.10.19-
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When the destructive fall armyworm arrived in Asia in the summer of 2018, scientists were…
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ADB-IRRI eye increased investments for sustainable agriculture technologies
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have recently …
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Investments, policies, and technologies for food security in Asia and the Pacific
28.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Hunger is still on the march in Asia and the Pacific. About 518 million people…
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Outsmarting the enemy through proactive rice science
28.10.19-
Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is collaborating with partners in the Healthy Crops…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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New project offers circular-economy solutions for refugee and host communities in East Africa
24.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new three-year project that will pilot and scale locally viable and gender-responsive circular-eco…
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It’s time to change the system, not just the technology
23.10.19-
Food security
Society faces enormous challenges in the transition to sustainable rural development. We are unlikel…
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FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste
22.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage befo…
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Towards a National Watershed and Agroforestry Multi-Stakeholder Platform in Ethiopia
22.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Agriculture is the mainstay of Ethiopia’s economy, contributing 41% of the country's gross domesti…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
21.10.19-
Food security
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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Impact study demonstrates Bt brinjal eggplant variety helps farmers in Bangladesh earn more with less pesticide
18.10.19-
Food security
Eggplant, known as brinjal in Bangladesh, is a high-value crop that is widely grown and consumed t…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
18.10.19-
Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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Official Launch of CGIAR’s “Crops to End Hunger” Initiative at Borlaug Dialogue
17.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
CGIAR announced its new global initiative, Crops to End Hunger, this week at the World…
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Book launch: Ghana’s prospects for economic transformation
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the past 30 years, Ghana has experienced steady growth in per capita income and…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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