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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-
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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Conference highlights need for increased climate funding for rice agri-food systems
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
A global conference is calling for more investment in climate change initiatives for the world’s…
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Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
25.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…
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Call for proposals: The political economy of food system transformation
25.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) is issuing a call for…
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IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference
23.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Association of Agricultural Economists holds its 6th annual conference this week in Ab…
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Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia
18.09.19-
Food security
New research shows that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia used various coping mechanisms apart from …
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Benefits of interconnectedness: How addressing climate change can foster sustainable land and food security
17.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Third in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19-
Food security
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Health
A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Farmers’ demand for labor-friendly chickpea bears fruit: 2 more machine-harvestable varieties released in India
13.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
For the first time, the Central Varietal Release Committee (CVRC) of India has released two…
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A few engineering breakthroughs that could (literally) transform Africa’s dairy systems and food security
12.09.19-
Food security
Antigen biosensor detector on a UV LASER ablated gold coated glass plate (Photo credit: Flickr/Clive…
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Thursday Links, September 2019
12.09.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
A monthly round-up of recent articles, blog postings and tweets about livestock, aid and other…
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IRRI co-organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue to strengthen extension and advisory services in Odisha
11.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Department of Agriculture and Fa…
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Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good
10.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, speaking at GASL 2019 (photo credit: IL…
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Averting the looming climate crisis for the global poor
10.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Second in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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12 years of Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Breeding future-ready crops: selecting priority traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Food security
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Researchers look deep under the banana’s skin
05.09.19-
Food security
The very thing that makes bananas so easy to eat – they don’t have seeds…
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