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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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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
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Nutrition
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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New CIMMYT pre-commercial hybrids available from Asia maize breeding programs
05.08.19-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved…
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Protect our food. Fund the seed.
02.08.19-
Food security
“It is the seed that controls the system, not the other way around.” Chef and…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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Global Food Policy Report–EAT-Lancet Commission launch in The Hague: Rural revitalization and sustainable diets
01.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
How do two major reports with different emphases on the relationship between nutrition and agricultu…
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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020
01.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestoc…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
31.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: I…
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Linking local and global food systems for more healthy and sustainable communities
30.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Three new areas of investigation related to diets, nutrition and sustainability, starting with short…
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Conference: Confronting the challenges in transforming Ethiopia’s economy
30.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in recent decades, but is now confronting mounting economic c…
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Knowledge + passion: Women’s recipe in millet and sorghum production in Mali
26.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two women’s associations in Sikasso, Mali are changing the status of pearl millet and sorghum,…
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The high price of healthy food … and the low price of unhealthy food
24.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Poor diets are now the No. 1 risk factor in the global burden of disease (GBD), accounting…
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New manual provides quantitative approach to drought stress phenotyping
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Since 1900, more than two billion people have been affected by drought worldwide, according to the…
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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
19.07.19-
Food security
Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Food security
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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The birth of an impatient and optimistic breed of community seed producers in Mali
19.07.19-
Food security
Jean Goita has come a long way since his days as a grain producer in…
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PIM Newsletter: April – June 2019
19.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
PIM news and updated from the second quarter of 2019: new research, publications, PIM webinars,…
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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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