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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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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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What three Ethiopian women can show us about the promises – and pitfalls – of adopting technology
06.03.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Small-scale irrigation technologies are transforming the backyards of smallholder farmers. For this …
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How can you integrate gender and nutrition in your research?
05.03.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA), a CGIAR Res…
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Healthier and prosperous Africa: ‘AVISA’ project launched for faster agriculture gains in seven countries
01.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tanzanian Minister for Agriculture calls for more public-private collaboration Greater yields, highe…
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IITA initiates STEP to encourage participation of school children in agribusiness
01.03.19-
Food security
At the 2018 Africa Food Prize (AFP) ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, IITA Director General, Dr…
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The missing seed market: Promoting improved seeds for women farmers
27.02.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Ethiopia, a World Bank study found that female farm managers produce 23 percent less yield per…
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Livestock’s future: An opportunity not a threat
26.02.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future initiative published a white paper prepared by the…
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Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’
25.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
With growing stress on natural resources, emergency workers have begun to examine their intervention…
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Forest dwellers face mass evictions, as species extinction threatens global food supply
25.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Forests News delves into headlines from around the globe: Millions of forest dwellers face eviction…
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Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast by examining alternative crops in the lower Gangetic plains
22.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Wheat blast — one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases — is moving swiftly into ne…
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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself? A New Entry Point to An Old Question.
21.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This post originally appeared in African Leadership Magazine Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself: Th…
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Groundwater and sustainable development
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
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AfricaRice Science Week 2019 adopts a forward-looking perspective
19.02.19-
Food security
Over five days, more than 70 participants, consisting mainly of AfricaRice scientists, as well as…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
19.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
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New infographics illustrate impact of wheat blast
18.02.19-
Food security
Wheat blast is a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease that threatens food safety and security…
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Water security for sustainable dryland development
18.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The search for options to boost water productivity…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
14.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
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