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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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Emerging Scientist: Laura Khor
02.02.21-
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Laura Khor, a WorldFish Research Fellow, earned her Master of Science in Aquaculture from Universiti…
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World Wetlands Day 2021: the unknown potential of wetlands in nature-based solutions
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Happy World Wetlands Day! Wetlands are "natural harvesters" of water and, by definition, sites wher…
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Alliance Women in Science: Then and Now
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Today we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an opportunity to…
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Toward a sustainable coffee future in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
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Through extensive research and international collaboration, the Alliance supports work to make coffe…
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ICARDA's New Video Series on Cactus Pear Production
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ICARDA has released part one of a three-video series on cactus pear production, aimed at…
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The downward trend: Nature’s decline risks our quality of life
25.01.21-
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Scientists conducted a sweeping review of nature’s contributions to humans in order to present a…
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Ziziphus agroforestry: a yield and income ladder for millet farmers in Niger
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A long term experiment at ICRISAT’s Sadore research station with Ziziphus mauritania (Pomme du Sah…
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Towards sustainable seed systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
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The AVISA project has rolled out its seed systems strategy in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda…
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Responding to the effects of COVID-19 on smallholder bean farmers in Kenya and Uganda
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing smallholder farmers’ vulnera…
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Forest and landscape restoration: Beyond fixes that fail
19.01.21-
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One of the challenges in managing tree resources is the long delay between planting efforts…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
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Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress
18.01.21-
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UPDATE: The Call for Abstracts is now closed. For the latest information on the 2nd…
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Encouraging entrepreneurship with mobile grinders and seed cleaning machines
29.12.20-
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ICARDA and its national partners in Tunisia are promoting entrepreneurship and rural businesses thro…
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Coming Full Circle with Maize
22.12.20-
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From studying wild cucurbits in Spain to judging the “Largest Maize Ear in the World”…
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New guidelines ease the way for fish-friendly irrigation systems
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A new set of guidelines provides practical guidance on the integration of irrigation systems with…
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Mobile app connects fish farmers with aquaculture information despite COVID-19 in Myanmar
16.12.20-
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A new mobile application is delivering crucial aquaculture information to small-scale fish farmers w…
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Undervalued and underutilized – cocoyam is ripe for development
15.12.20-
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Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is…
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More abundant tree species unlikely to return after droughts
21.11.20-
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Researchers around the world have found an alarming lack of natural replacement of dominant tree…
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