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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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When saying 'see, it works!' isn’t enough: Sharing results from an evaluation of video-mediated extension in Ethiopia
08.08.18-
Food security
BY DAVID J. SPIELMAN, SIMRIN MAKHIJA, GASHAW T. ABATE AND TANGUY BERNARD For many researchers at …
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What do equity and equality have to do with it? Insights for food and nutrition from development studies research
07.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Equity and equality are important themes in food and nutrition, but the existing literature has…
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How and why iron-biofortified pearl millet improves cognitive function: A look inside a new study
07.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy, 1961…
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When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’
07.08.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pas…
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Nigeria workshop seeks to scale up proven technologies, boost aquaculture production in West and Central Africa
07.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Participants from several West and Central African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Iv…
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Aflasafe GH02 launched in Ghana
06.08.18-
Food security
On 29 June 2018, A4NH researchers with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) we…
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WorldFish and the International Rice Research Institute to host Myanmar’s first international scientific symposium on rice-fish systems
06.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Aung…
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Reaping a golden harvest in the Ayeyarwady Delta
06.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The rice industry stakeholders in Myanmar continue to develop solutions for sustaining agricultural …
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IFPRI Researchers Distinguished with Numerous Awards at International Conference of Agricultural Economists
03.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Several IFPRI researchers were recognized with prestigious awards at the 30thInternational Conferenc…
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Interview: Unpacking integrated nutrition with IFPRI’s Harold Alderman
03.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Research shows that an integrated nutrition approach—bringing together social protection programs,…
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3 sorghum varieties released in Nigeria
02.08.18-
Food security
Nigeria’s National Committee on Variety Naming, Registration and Release on 26 July 2018, approved…
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How countries can achieve nutrition goals through the food system approach
02.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Suresh Babu The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to food security and nutrition…
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One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder dairying in Kenya (photo credit: Accelerated Value Chain Development/Sophie Mbugua). ‘…
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Enhancing global livestock advocacy for sustainable development
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Some of the work going on at an end-of-project GLAD workshop held last week at…
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'Don’t sit in the AC room and write policies; work with farmers and get your hands dirty'
01.08.18-
Food security
Suresh Babu It was a decade after the Green Revolution took strong roots in India in the…
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Iron-Biofortified Pearl Millet (Bajra) Consumption Improves Cognitive Outcomes in Indian Adolescents
30.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Consuming biofortified pearl millet (bajra) stems the deleterious effects of iron …
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Fisheries and aquaculture will benefit from new agreement
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Food security
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Nutrition
11 July 2018, Rome, Italy - Gareth Johnstone, Director General WorldFish, left, and Arni Mathiesen,…
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Women farmers’ Crop Cafeteria serves practical rice science
29.07.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A women’s self-help group in a small village in Odisha leads the way in innovative…
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