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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Garlic—A potent (if pungent) ‘Gas X’ methane reducer for cows?
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Dairy cow in Embu, Kwnya (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Cattle produce more methane than many…
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How trees and water fuel sustainable communities
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This podcast will take you into the underground river hidden beneath the karst ecosystem and…
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When climate and Covid-19 collide: Ten steps to prepare South Asia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
As if managing the evolving coronavirus pandemic is not enough, countries in South Asia are…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
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Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
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ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia
24.04.20-
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The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report of 2005 have changed the global percept…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
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Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
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When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
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As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemicÂ
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This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
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Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in Sahel
21.04.20-
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Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and…
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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
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The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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Earth Day 2020: Lessons for human survival from a pandemic and a global environment under stress
21.04.20-
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BY WEI ZHANG, ELIZABETH BRYAN, CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The 50th anniversary of Ea…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
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To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure
20.04.20-
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We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
23.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Zambia - It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of…
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