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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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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
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BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations
14.05.21-
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At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…
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Putting One Health into practice: A call to action for animal health
14.05.21-
Health
Action for Animal Health is a new coalition that aims to secure greater support for…
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Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND CYNTHIA PAZ Global patterns and local variations of COVI…
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
12.05.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JAWOO KOO, CLAUDIA RINGLER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH AND CARLO AZZARRI India’s devastating second wave o…
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Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds
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Food security
In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biolo…
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Policy responses to COVID-19: What worked and how to build resilience for the future
11.05.21-
Food security
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT, DANIELLE RESNICK, NICHOLA NAYLOR AND JESSICA WALLACH The COVID-19 pandemic has pr…
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CGIAR Researcher from WorldFish, Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, wins World Food Prize
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Nutrition
Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a CGIAR scientist and nutrition expert from WorldFish, was named…
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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
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Environmental health
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Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation
07.05.21-
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…
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Community participation: greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
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The rolling plains of the Aba Gerima watershed cover the upper portion of Lake Tana…
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Supporting the Food System Dialogues for Honduras ahead of UN summit
04.05.21-
Food security
We have never had a better understanding of the need to transform food systems. The…
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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
03.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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ILRI and partners call for greater investment in global animal health in the fight against pandemics
01.05.21-
Health
To mark World Veterinary Day 2021, the International Livestock Research Institute joined a number of…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Can child wasting be prevented in times of crisis? Evidence from Burundi
28.04.21-
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Nutrition
This post is the sixth in a series on a research project in Guatemala and Burundi…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
26.04.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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