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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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Blockchain and the future of agricultural markets
03.05.18-
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Blockchain enthusiasts in agricultural and related industries are investigating its use in ensuring …
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A vision for our D2D community
03.05.18-
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Daniel Jimenez writes how the Data-Driven Agronomy Community of Practice will advance data-driven a…
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Newly released database on varietal release and adoption estimates for eleven CGIAR mandated crops across 15 countries
03.05.18-
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New database on the adoption of improved varieties is an important resource for researchers.…
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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
26.04.18-
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Food security
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, INDIRA YERRAMAREDDY AND SURESH BABU The data era has arrived. Stakeholders, ent…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
23.04.18-
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Environmental health
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long…
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The tropical family tree: Tracking forests’ evolutionary past
28.03.18-
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Scientists have traced the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests, with some surpris…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
22.03.18-
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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Dams, Data and Decisions
13.02.18-
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As dam construction surges across Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, major changes in river flows, se…
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Scaling Up DNA Fingerprinting for Crop Variety Identification
05.02.18-
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Food security
DNA fingerprinting is the process through which genetic material is extracted from a sample taken…
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