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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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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
16.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
16.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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CGIAR centers push recommendations for CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition and Diets
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Placing the Global South front and center Among the critical conversations had at the recently…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Food security
The world urgently needs a transformation of the global food system, leading to healthier diets…
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Cassava and Climate Change: Boosting the IQ of a Naturally Climate-Smart Crop
15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Cassava is hardy root crop consumed by millions of people across Africa—but largely ignored by…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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Ghanaian farmers can now control Aflatoxin, earn big
14.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A study has identified the best non-toxic strains that can limit aflatoxin contamination in laborato…
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CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia
10.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Ag…
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Agricultural growth is key to spur Ghana's economic growth
09.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana has been viewed as one of Africa's political and economic success stories, from maintaining…
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Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives
08.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of…
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Achieving policy impact with political economy research: frameworks, applications, and lessons learned
07.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Danielle Resnick shares her reflections about the recent "Political economy for improved policy anal…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
04.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
While land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru hav…
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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Brisk promotion of improved groundnut and sorghum varieties to take adoption to the next level
04.10.19-
Food security
Five improved varieties of groundnut and three of sorghum with the best market traits were…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Food security
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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Enlarging on the EAT-Lancet planetary diet report—A fresh look by CSIRO’s Mario Herrero, one of the authors
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Mario Herrero, a scientist formerly with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and n…
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