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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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Marking World Food Safety Day 2021 with a focus on ILRI’s food safety research
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Health
World Food Safety Day is celebrated annually on 7 June to raise awareness on the…
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New integrated methodology supports inclusive and resilient global food systems transformation
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Food security
The new methodology developed by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in co…
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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
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Food security
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Nutrition
A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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Jordan rehabilitates its vast degraded Badia region at the micro scale
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Jordan's arid and degraded Badia region covers nearly 90% of the country's area and hosts…
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Enlisting the dairy industry to end Colombia’s deforestation crisis
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Environmental health
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Food security
Colombia has seen rapidly increasing deforestation, especially in areas of the Amazon rainforest. Th…
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New report examines the impacts of COVID-19 control measures on food safety in East Africa
04.06.21-
Health
Following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), measures to contain its spread …
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Informal food markets: what it takes to make them safer
04.06.21-
Health
Research has shown that improving the safety of food sold in informal markets can be…
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Advances in breeding operations can help deliver vital varieties to smallholder farmers
03.06.21-
Food security
Public breeding operations teams serving lower income countries need to upgrade their skills and too…
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Challenges for policy and research to reduce food loss and waste
03.06.21-
Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Food loss and waste is a substantial global problem,…
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Old knowledge, new techniques – working together to rehabilitate degraded farmland
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For World Environment Day, Mira Haddad, ICARDA’s Associate Researcher in Spatio-temporal Assessme…
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Burkina Faso releases its first pearl millet hybrid
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISATand evalu…
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New project: fostering human rights in food systems
03.06.21-
Food security
The Alliance is part of a multidisciplinary consortium recently awarded $3.8 million to launch the…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: Food system transformation and the impact of COVID-19 on African economies
01.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SOKHNA SALL SECK The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on public health, economic…
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COVID-19 impact on aquatic food systems reveals insights for future resilience
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The onset of COVID-19 disrupted food value chains and reversed years of progress on key…
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Policy-induced market distortions along agricultural value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
28.05.21-
Food security
BY GIRMA KASSIE AND SIMLA TOKGOZ In developing countries where agriculture comprises a significant p…
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HarvestPlus Partners with Indonesia Govt. to Scale Up Zinc-Biofortified Rice
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Food security
HarvestPlus is working with the Indonesian government to scale up equitable and cost-effective acces…
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Financing Sustainable Development Goal 2 and the end of hunger
27.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Food systems must function well in order to achieve the Sustainable Develop…
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Food systems dialogue promotes aquatic foods for transformative solutions
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To transform food systems in support of safe, sustainable and nutritious diets for all, aquatic…
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