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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
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
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
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
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
10.07.18-
Food security
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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?
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
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
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
09.07.18-
Food security
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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
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
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
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
06.07.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
“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
06.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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
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
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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Climate change impacts on rice in Africa
03.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization…
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Lessons in scaling up agriculture and building sustainability from Brazil and beyond
02.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD The agricultural changes in Brazil, Asia, and the United States in recent…
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