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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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A focus on gender is key to climate adaptation
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Fourth in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Regional Focus: Working towards healthy diets
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
IRRI's regional representative for South Asia, Nafees Meah, speaks with Geography and You to discuss…
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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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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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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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As the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit Approaches, here’s how IFPRI is addressing climate change
05.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
First in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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World Water Week 2019
26.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Happy World Water Week! Join us this week as we discuss innovative water solutions for…
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Reuters.com: Water pollution an ‘invisible threat’ to global goals, economists warn
23.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
World Bank report warns of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies,…
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Independent.co.uk: World health chiefs call for more studies on microplastics in drinking water
22.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Research gap must be filled but meanwhile governments and businesses must urgently reduce plastic pr…
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To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
21.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is…
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How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region
19.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change poses a significant global threat to food security and nutrition, largely through its…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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Thomson Reuters: It’s time to look underground for climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
15.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A recent study sheds new light on the climate-groundwater relationship, finding that the 2015-2016 E…
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IPSNews.net: Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect Storm?
13.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Those of us who work on water issues in (the global) South understand that there…
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New drought monitoring system will reduce climate risks for South Asian farmers
12.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To mitigate the food security and economic risks of South Asia’s frequent and intense droughts,…
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“We are receiving a free subsidy from nature, but it will not continue indefinitely” – Louis Verchot
12.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Many findings are important for us and for policy makers around the world. The report…
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Heat-tolerant wild beans tapped to breed commercial beans for hotter climates
09.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Using the genetic traits of a wild bean species, CIAT and the Crop Trust are…
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