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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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New ways to engage farmers through social entrepreneurs
09.11.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new initiative has begun to better support value chains where farmers’ welfare is one…
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How we work to ensure pest-free exchange of plant genetic resources
09.11.18-
Food security
Phytosanitation – prevention of introduction of plant pests into new areas – is critical to…
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Climate change could mean beer shortages on tap
08.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As the impact of climate change on food staples becomes more apparent, scientists with the Internat…
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New review finds fundamental gaps and new opportunities for world’s agricultural monitoring systems
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world’s agricultural monitoring systems provide up-to-date information on food production to d…
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies
02.11.18-
Big data
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Food security
A group of leading international organizations joined with IFPRI and PIM in 2013 to form the…
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Policy seminar: Exploring agriculture’s key role in reducing poverty
01.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural development is among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and is central to…
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Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
31.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts …
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World Cities Day: Growing urban poor populations face unique nutrition challenges
30.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This…
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It's Time for a Change in the Breeding Mindset
30.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
"Today the challenge has changed: We need to address an ever growing population, under a…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
30.10.18-
Environmental health
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(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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WEBINAR: Do medium and large-scale farms generate income spillovers for rural households? The case of Tanzania
26.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Land acquisitions by foreign and local investors has generated much speculation about the impacts on…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher
26.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced i…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
25.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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An agri-food revolution for tropical root and tuber crops
22.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“When, where and how will tropical root and tuber crops lead to the next agri-food…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
22.10.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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