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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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Giving youth roots and wings for a better agricultural future in Kenya
12.04.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Programs provide income-generation opportunities for young Kenyan farmers From equipping young women…
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An Innovative messaging tool helps South India’s groundnut farmers post impressive yields
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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An advisory tool, scalable for any number of farmers, has shown immense potential in facilitating…
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"It is no longer a question of why we are incorporating gender, but really a question of how." - WLE/IWMI at Seeds of Change
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Gender equality
“What kinds of seeds are we sowing? What kind of change are we anticipating? And…
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University of Florida Researchers Develop Model to Help Keep Crop Seeds Healthy
11.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Working with international researchers, University of Florida scientists have developed a model that…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
KU Leuven and Bioversity International signed a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of the…
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Breaking Ground: Tawanda Mashonganyika unites crop breeders and market experts for more impactful varieties
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The low rate at which farmers adopt improved varieties is one of the biggest obstacles…
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Policy seminar: Who will feed India?
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Food security
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Who will feed India? The country’s population will soon be larger than China’s, economic growth…
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Transforming food systems in Southeast Asia
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Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food systems transformation in South and Southeast Asia
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Nutrition
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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the International Water Management …
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How countries around the world are leveraging agriculture to improve nutrition
08.04.19-
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Nutrition
At times, engaging the agriculture sector to improve nutrition seems like an uphill battle. In…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report launch: Rural revitalization is key to ending hunger, improving livelihoods worldwide
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
As the world faced a difficult 2018—with ongoing conflicts, climate-driven disasters, and politica…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
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Environmental health
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14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakehol…
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French agricultural research and CGIAR reinforce their scientific collaboration to the benefit of agriculture, food and climate change
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Laying a strong foundation for a joint plan of action between CGIAR and France to…
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“Communicate” the theme of the Annual Meeting of Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System project held at IITA
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The meeting which was themed “Communicate” and facilitated by Sue Davison, Director of Pipal Lim…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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The ‘smart food’ women of Kenya sing a nutritious tune
05.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
How do you switch back to more nutritious and climate smart food? Making it fun…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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