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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
16.05.25-
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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Can a light-touch graduation model address persistent poverty? Evidence from Ethiopia
08.01.24BY JESSICA LEIGHT OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Households living in extreme poverty face a complex…
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CGIAR’s National Policies and Strategies initiative is contributing to the development of an evidence-based livestock strategy in Rwanda
08.01.24The collaboration between research and policymaking must be a two-way street. Effective policy needs…
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Gender bias in bargaining: Lessons from haggling over the price of seed in rural Uganda
04.01.24-
Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT AND LEOCARDIA NABWIRE OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In developing countries, hagg…
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Inspirational filmmaking to raise women’s voice and agency in the construction of assets for climate resilience in India
26.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
BY JORDAN KYLE, KATRINA KOSEC, SUDHA NARAYANAN, AND KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Tusu…
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The population of Gaza is on the brink of famine
22.12.23-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
The food insecurity situation in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly dire. A recent blog of ju…
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Report launch: The key role of trade in strengthening food security in Latin America and the Caribbean
20.12.23-
Food security
BY BRIAN MCNAMARA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Recent events such as the war in Ukraine and…
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Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) project: Finding more effective ways to deliver vital information and innovation to farmers
19.12.23Finding more effective ways to deliver vital information and innovation to farmers. DLEC’s Impact …
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Forman Lecture: Simón Barquera on tackling obesity and noncommunicable diseases in Mexico
19.12.23BY JENNIFER JOHNSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The global prevalence of overweight and obesity has…
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How is Kenya’s National Fertilizer Subsidy Program working?
18.12.23BY HAILEMARIAM AYALEW, JOSEPH KARUGIA, JOHN OLWANDE, AND CLEMENS BREISINGER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 …
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On the right track but not there yet: From poverty reduction to prosperity in Khatlon Province, Tajikistan
18.12.23BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT, SARAH PECHTL, MOHRU MARDONOVA, AND KAMILJON AKRAMOV OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Taj…
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Sudan’s ongoing conflict disrupts agrifood processing and aggravates unemployment
15.12.23BY OLIVER K. KIRUI, KHALID SIDDIG, HALA ABUSHAMA, AND ALEMAYEHU SEYOUM TAFFESSE OPEN ACCESS |…
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CGIAR System Transformation Initiatives join forces at the intersection of gender and climate for inclusive and resilient agrifood systems
15.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Amidst increasing evidence of climate change's impact on women and recognizing its pivotal role in…
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IFPRI and CGIAR at Borlaug Dialogue 2023: Food system repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine war
14.12.23BY ALIX UNDERWOOD OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered a…
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Book launch: Transforming the global food system in a politically polarized world
13.12.23BY JENNIFER JOHNSON AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The global food system, with its…
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Bridging the smallholder finance gap: Collaborative research with WeGro in Bangladesh
12.12.23BY KATE AMBLER, MEHRAB BAKHTIAR, ALAN DE BRAUW, MOHAMMAD RIAD UDDIN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0…
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Fertilizer policies amid global supply and price shocks
11.12.23BY KIBROM ABAY, JORDAN CHAMBERLIN, PAULINE CHIVENGE, CHARLOTTE HEBEBRAND, AND DAVID J. SPIELMAN OPEN…
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Unlocking opportunities of planet-friendly school meals
08.12.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY AULO GELLI AND MARIE RUEL OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 This post is part of…
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A new rapid assessment tool for food security risks posed by global price shocks
07.12.23-
Food security
BY NICHOLAS MINOT AND ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 International food commodity prices have…
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