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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Creating value together in Africa’s rice sector
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)16.07.18-
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The multi-stakeholder innovation platform approach promotes rice agribusiness by emphasizing active …
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Threat of cassava mosaic disease, strengthening resilience to climate disasters, dominate conversations between CIAT and Vietnam agricultural institutions
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)13.07.18-
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Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the International Center for Tr…
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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)13.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…
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IRRI, FAO teams up to develop sustainable rice value chain in Africa
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)12.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is equipping the next genera…
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2018 GFPR & CASDR Beijing Launch: China provides valuable lessons in food security and agricultural development
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY LIN GAO Countries must work with and learn from each other to advance progress…
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Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)10.07.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Forests: The greenest pastures?
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)09.07.18-
Food security
Ethiopia - How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on…
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Reassessing the aid-policy-growth relationship: A new approach
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XIN GENG AND MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ Can foreign aid be effective only if countries have…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Connecting the dots: the role of social science research in agricultural R&D systems
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)09.07.18-
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Nutrition
Are we doing enough to ensure social science research contributes to advancing agricultural R&D …
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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.07.18-
Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)06.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)06.07.18-
Food security
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Health
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)06.07.18-
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“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
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Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)06.07.18-
Food security
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Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…
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RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)05.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)04.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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