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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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‘Historic’ India Millet Mission campaign to begin in September
25.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Road-map for National Year of Millets 2018, presented The largest producer of millets in the…
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Teff love: Ethiopia’s staple crop requires a big push
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BART MINTEN, ALEMAYEHU SEYOUM TAFFESSE AND SMITA AGGARWAL Not long ago, teff—the gluten-free,…
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EAC launches policy briefs on aflatoxin prevention and control developed with IITA
23.08.18-
Food security
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Health
A set of policy briefs outlining key strategic policy recommendations and actions to prevent and…
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PIM workshop at ICAE 2018 explored challenges and opportunities for rural transformation in the 21st century
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On July 28, as part of the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), the…
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Unlocking the potential for agricultural development in the Middle East and North Africa
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY ELENA HILDEBRANDT Agricultural production and economic development are often neglected in policy …
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IRRI, AFSTRI, Corteva Agriscience™ team up to build capacity and network of young plant scientists
22.08.18-
Food security
IRRI and Corteva Agriscience™ partners in building a strong global community of scientists which w…
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Assam farmers learn about technologies that increase yield and improve rice farming efficiency
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in Assam accounts for over a third of income generated in the state, and…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
21.08.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
GENNOVATE is a global comparative research initiative that uses qualitative methods to address how g…
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High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
17.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so th…
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National Planning Commission and IRRI-Nepal hold round table meeting to discuss five-year work plan on the country’s rice agri-food system
16.08.18-
Food security
For more than 50 years, IRRI has been working with Nepal in providing improved germplasm…
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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
15.08.18-
Food security
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Health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO AND SARA GUSTAFSON The countries that make up the G20 account for around…
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IRRI celebrates National Nutrition Month in the Philippines
15.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Nutrition awareness ramps up in the Philippines during the annual celebration of National Nutrition …
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
14.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN After many years of rapid growth, serious trade tensions have emerged between…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Pathways from Agricultural Research to Poverty Reduction: A Bigger Set of ‘Food Systems’ Thinking is Required
14.08.18-
Food security
In this interview, Tom Tomich, ex-ISPC member and Professor and Director, Agricultural Sustainabilit…
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Nepal to adopt intensive rice farming technologies to achieve food security
13.08.18-
Food security
As part of his South Asia travel, IRRI’s Director General Matthew Morell had the opportunity…
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An app to help African rice farmers beat weeds
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice recently launched a powerful decision-support tool, called RiceAdvice-WeedManager, to hel…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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