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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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CGIAR scientists and research collaborators from Uganda discuss new One Health initiative
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The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research partnership, CGIAR, is currently develop…
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WorldFish at the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit
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Nutrition
WorldFish joined the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit to highlight the essential role of aquatic food…
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Before the outbreak: Stopping plant disease pandemics
24.08.21-
Food security
COVID-19 and the banana-infecting Fusarium wilt fungus race TR4 have a lot in common besides…
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Locally-farmed tilapia distributed to flood victims in Dili, Timor-Leste
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Nutrition
WorldFish has handed out 710 kg of fresh, locally-farmed tilapia to flood victims in Dili,…
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An integrated approach to realize multiple benefits across water, energy, food, forests and biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Health
BY STEFAN UHLENBROOK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER As we mark World Water Week, water, land, energy, forest,…
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Steps to ensure seed systems conserve China’s underutilized crops
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Environmental health
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Food security
Researchers explain the importance of seeds for diverse, underutilized crops in China, and suggest p…
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How well do you know Cali’s food system?
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
I was born in Cali – I won’t say how many years ago – and…
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Agriculture and biodiversity can work together for climate, nutrition and food security
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Colombo, August 20, 2021 Agriculture is often blamed for the degradation of our natural environment.…
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Only 7% of agricultural innovation investment targets environmental outcomes, finds CoSAI study
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Environmental health
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Food security
Colombo, August 20, 2021 With the world's population set to grow beyond 9 billion by…
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Investing USD 15.2 billion more in innovation will bring food, climate and water goals into reach
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Environmental health
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Food security
Colombo, August 13, 2021 If the Global South is going to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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Are Africa's dams threatening to hold back efforts to eradicate malaria?
20.08.21-
Food security
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Health
Although dams are critically important for Africa's water security and economy, research has also re…
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Presenting research to expand the frontiers of gender analytical frameworks and methods
18.08.21-
Food security
Participating in conference sessions to share our research and learn of others’ projects provides …
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2021 Global Food Policy Report: COVID-19’s impact on agriculture and food systems in South Asia
17.08.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY ANISHA MOHAN The severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted…
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User-friendly seed spreader saves Tunisian female farmers time, money, and efforts, with significant yield increases
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Tunisia, the smallest land plots are overwhelmingly owned by female farmers, which comes wit…
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Capturing fine diet data in Vietnam to guide action on food systems transformation
17.08.21-
Food security
The Alliance in Vietnam has worked on baseline food systems profiles to help address food…
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$15.2 billion in research and innovation investments can put global climate and hunger goals within reach
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY UMA LELE AND MARK ROSEGRANT Increasing public and private investment in agricultural research and…
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Nutritional campaign targets ethnic minority youth in Myanmar
13.08.21-
Nutrition
In Myanmar, just four out of ten households have access to nutritious diets. This lack…
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School feeding programs improve nutrition and child growth across generations: Evidence from India
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Health
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Nutrition
BY SUMAN CHAKRABARTI, SAMUEL SCOTT, HAROLD ALDERMAN, PURNIMA MENON AND DANIEL GILLIGAN By April 2020…
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