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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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World Food Prize Highlights: Aquatic foods make a splash in Des Moines
22.10.21-
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Nutrition
WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Shakuntala Thilsted landed in Des Moines, …
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Press release: Aquatic foods make a splash at World Food Prize
22.10.21-
Nutrition
WorldFish scientist Shakuntala Thilsted receives award for her influential research on nutrition, fi…
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World Food Prize Laureate champions aquatic foods at CGIAR Anniversary
21.10.21-
Nutrition
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research and innovation network, marked its 50th year anni…
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International Day of Rural Women 2021: Overcoming pandemic and climate challenges
15.10.21-
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Health
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND ELIZABETH BRYAN The International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) was establis…
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Rural women revolutionize the fight against malnutrition in Odisha, India
15.10.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Linking locally-sourced aquatic foods with food and nutrition policies in the coastal state of …
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Global research effort sets the stage for an aquatic food future
14.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Food systems account for half of the earth’s biocapacity and are responsible for 25 percent of…
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Harnessing the nourishing potential of aquatic foods in India
13.10.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
A panel of food and nutrition security experts discussed the benefits of sustainable aquatic foods…
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Fifty years of cassava breeding
12.10.21-
Food security
Kasetsart 50 is a progeny that would make any parent proud. KU 50, as it’s…
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Business, researchers, farmers, NGOs and governments team up for sustainable cacao in South America
12.10.21-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Agroecological Regenerative Cocoa (ARC) project, which involves CGIAR centers, Conservation Inte…
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Building climate resilience into Bangladesh's coastal communities
12.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Around the world, aquatic food systems provide meaningful livelihoods for 60 million people and sust…
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Trial by pasta: new uses for traditional Ethiopian wheat varieties
11.10.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Alliance has joined with Ethiopian research partners and Italian pasta makers to explore a…
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Can Weather Index Insurance be a win for all?
11.10.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
Developing countries are already enduring the worst of climate change. Floods and droughts are impac…
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Machine hiring centers create jobs for youth while saving time, cost and labor for farmers
11.10.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A farm machine-hiring center set up in two villages in South India is showing how…
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ILRI researchers contribute to Scientific and Technical Review special issue on veterinary services
10.10.21-
Health
A special issue (Aug 2021) of the Scientific and Technical Review journal of the World…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
07.10.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
HIGHLIGHTS Researchers call for the integration of fisheries into rice systems and irrigation scheme…
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Alliance and FAO celebrate International Year for Fruits and Vegetables
07.10.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate the International Year for Fruits and Vegetables, the Alliance teamed up with the…
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Diverse aquatic food production key to sustainable diets, finds new research
07.10.21-
Nutrition
A landmark study has shown significant potential for aquatic foods to become more sustainable, compa…
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Heat shocks linked to lower maize yields and reduced child height: Evidence from Tanzania
05.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY STEVEN BLOCK,BELIYOU HAILE, LIANGZHI YOU AND DEREK HEADEY The growing threat that climate shocks…
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