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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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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
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Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announced a new three-year public–pr…
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Earth Day 2021: Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated o…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
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Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
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COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated online last year,…
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Understanding basic gender concepts
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Gender concepts have evolved over the years. Old concepts have been refined or replaced with…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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Charting new ‘sustainable agricultural pathways’ in Brazil
17.04.21-
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Originally published as a blog in CoSAI news. Brazil is a large country spanning several…
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Tana Lala-Pritchard awarded 2020 Distinguished Alumna by Alpha Chi National Honor Society
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WorldFish executive director of Strategy, Innovation, and Communications, Tana Lala-Pritchard, is…
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Guidelines support COVID-safe fish transporting
11.04.21-
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Approximately 200 metric tons of live fish are transported to markets every day in Bangladesh.…
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Food systems approach key to balancing biodiversity, livelihoods
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A food systems approach led the extraordinary recovery of hilsa fish stocks while boosting the…
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How do we sustainably manage transboundary diseases and crop pests?
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In our hyper-connected world, it should come as no surprise that recent years have shown…
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Building resilient aquatic food livelihoods in Myanmar
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WorldFish researchers are working alongside small-scale aquatic food producers and value chain actor…
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Crisis in the Himalayas: climate change and unsustainable development
23.03.21-
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The [Uttarakhand flood] disaster last month in India demonstrated the risks from rising temperatures…
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World Water Day 2021: How can we manage better what we value most?
22.03.21-
Environmental health
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The theme of World Water Day 2021 (March 22) is “Valuin…
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Water storage gaps are growing worldwide. We need an integrated approach
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For millennia, storing water has been a cornerstone of survival for many societies, especially in…
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International Forests Day: The crucial value of India’s common lands
19.03.21-
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BY HARPINDER SANDHU, WEI ZHANG, HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK Common lands, whether communal…
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