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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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Food for thought from Sri Lanka on World Water Day 2019
19.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How farmers have taken charge of their destiny by using motor pumps for irrigation. Except…
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Vietnam adopts pre-emptive measures in the Mekong River Delta against El Niño
19.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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In the Mekong River Delta (MRD), over 1.7 million hectares of land are being used…
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Stakeholders meet discusses solutions to unshackle Myanmar’s groundnut value chain
18.03.19-
Food security
Why does an ageing variety command 20% of land under groundnut cultivation? How can existing…
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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-stakeholder res…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
13.03.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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Solving the “last mile” challenge of maize seeds
13.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agrodealers play a pivotal role in delivering the gains of the green revolution to millions…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
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Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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Palm oil’s complex land conflicts
13.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
In an ideal world, palm oil production would cause no deforestation, and have a transparent…
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Small investment, Big results!
13.03.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
How village savings and loans groups, orange fleshed sweetpotato and the Triple-S innovation are emp…
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Sustainable land use systems: A way to help achieve Colombia’s climate change mitigation and peacebuilding goals
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Environmental health
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Colombia has set ambitious targets to mitigate climate change and achieve stability. One promising a…
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New Diet, New Destiny? Saving the Planet Takes More Than Changing What We Eat
12.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Originally published as an Op-Ed on FoodTank Can changing our diet save the planet? When…
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Dramatic rainfall changes for key crops expected even with reduced greenhouse gas emissions
11.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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By 2040, rainfall on wheat, soybean, rice and maize will have changed, even if Paris…
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India wants to double farmers’ incomes – and tackle climate change. Is technology the answer to this double bind?
11.03.19-
Food security
Originally published as on Op-ed on Impaktar. Forty years since India gained independence, what ha…
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Much to gain from reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania
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The incredible scale of global food loss and waste – an estimated one-third of food…
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Global study guides agriculture towards gender equality
08.03.19-
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Now more than ever, the agricultural research for development sector recognizes that women’s needs…
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International Women’s Day: Indigenous women off the charts
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Food security
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All maps tell a story – a story about our relationship to the land. In…
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International Women’s Day 2019
08.03.19-
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Innovating for change: Spotlight on a champion rice processor in Africa On the occasion of…
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Seed Tracker: How one app can enhance seed systems for many crops
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Environmental health
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Thanks to its tolerance of poor soil, harsh conditions, pests and diseases, cassava is a…
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