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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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UNFSS Science Days: Groundwater can play a key role in transforming Africa’s food systems
14.07.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pi…
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Putting youth at the heart of aquatic food system transformations
14.07.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Young people today step into the world at a critical crossroads for our food systems.…
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My First Dialogue on the Path to the 2021 Food Systems Summit
14.07.21-
Food security
By Erika Eliana MosqueraI had heard about the Food Systems Summit, the major event the…
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UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation
13.07.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Repor…
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Roots and tubers can help households to weather storms
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
When super-typhoon Ompong blasted through the northern Philippines in September 2018, farmers who gr…
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Owning the story: People and human rights at the heart of communication on small-scale fisheries
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Food security
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Gender equality
Speakers and panelists at two webinars on ethical and inclusive communication on small-scale fisheri…
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Transforming Bangladesh’s aquatic food systems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
A virtual event was held to support Bangladesh’s aquatic foods systems and balance conservation wi…
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RTB and Agrilinks team up to showcase root, tuber and banana contribution to food and nutrition security
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Food security
During May 2021, the importance of root, tuber and banana crops was highlighted by Agrilinks,…
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Developing sustainable fish feed for healthy people and planet
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Food security
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Nutrition
New fish feed formulations work to nourish both fish and their pond ecosystems using locally…
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Waging war against the fall armyworm
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Food security
The fall armyworm is an invasive pest that eats more than 80 different crops, but…
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World Food Prize Laureate shares how to move from feeding to nourishing at CGIAR Council
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Shakuntala Thilsted advises the CGIAR Council to move research efforts beyond the quantity of food…
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From eyebrow beans to ‘lost’ rice: community seedbanks are protecting China’s crops
06.07.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Despite being relatively new in China, community-led seedbanks are a valuable resource in conserving…
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Data from new Excellence in Breeding report reveals progress on CGIAR’s transformation
06.07.21-
Food security
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Health
A new compilation of data reveals real progress on CGIAR’s crop breeding transformation agenda. …
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ILRI research generates evidence for better prevention and control of zoonotic diseases
06.07.21-
Health
World Zoonoses Day, celebrated annually on 6 July, commemorates the day in 1885 when Louis…
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Identifying market segments and aligning breeding pipelines will focus CGIAR investments
05.07.21-
Big data
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Food security
There is an urgent need for public breeding programs to prioritize and focus their efforts.…
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Building Food System Country Profiles to support decision-making in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
05.07.21-
Food security
Much of the work on food systems to date has relied on fragmented and disparate…
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New study explores wet markets and the risk of emerging zoonotic diseases
05.07.21-
Health
In Asia, live animals as well as animal products are commonly sold in traditional markets,…
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Research shifts policy from energy subsidy to water savings in Uzbekistan's irrigated heartland
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Environmental health
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Food security
In Uzbekistan, most agricultural land is irrigated with water pumped from two rivers, the Amu…
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