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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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How migration benefits economies and food security
22.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…
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Stakeholders learn about sustainable rice straw management in Vietnam
20.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Rice straw management remains to be one of Vietnam’s biggest agricultural challenges. On average, …
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Sri Lanka, IRRI set priority areas to restore rice self-sufficiency
19.06.18-
Food security
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 June 2018— The Sri Lankan Ministry of Agriculture and the International…
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CIMMYT projects working to enhance business agility of South Asian seed companies
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The seed industry in Nepal, as in most developing countries, is still emerging and largely…
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Transforming information into a commodity
18.06.18-
Food security
Can agricultural advisory services provide business opportunities for agro-input dealers? In Odisha,…
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2018 GFPR Stockholm Launch: Making global trade work for inclusive, sustainable food systems
15.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY CHRISTOPHER RUE The global trade in food will continue to play a key role…
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WLE Director promotes payments for ecosystems services at EAT Forum
14.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Director Izabella Koziell on the main…
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From Food Security to Nutrition Security
14.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
While ‘hunger’ continues to resonate as a cause deserving of funding support, focusing solely on…
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CIMMYT director general visits India
13.06.18-
Food security
Last week director general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Martin …
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Bihar and IRRI advance partnership to improve rice-based cropping systems
13.06.18-
Food security
Bihar, India, 13 June 2018 — Dr. Matthew Morell, Director General, International Rice Research Ins…
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Agricultural researchers boost fight against malnutrition with staple crops
12.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Breeding research by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is generating not…
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Sowing the seeds of innovation
10.06.18-
Food security
Innovation lies at the heart of the new strategic plan of the International Rice Research…
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GEF-Funded Integrated Approach Programme on Food Security Gains Momentum
08.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2017, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) launched the Integrated Approach Programme on Fosteri…
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Why we need a holistic approach to improve our complex food system
08.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Our current food systems are incredibly complex, and are experiencing multiple failures across many …
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Increasing farmer’s’ income through post-harvest technologies and value chain upgrading
07.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI aims to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Southeast Asia by delivering comprehensive…
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Nine Asian countries learn novel technologies in Rice Technology Transfer Systems in Asia (RTTS) Training Workshop at RDA in South Korea
07.06.18-
Food security
IRRI Education, in collaboration with the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of …
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How closing livestock yield gaps can enhance incomes, food security and the environment in Ethiopia and India
06.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding livestock yield gaps for poverty alleviation, food security and the environment is a r…
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Using Photovoice to assess impacts of behavior change nutrition activities in Kenya
05.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Novel ways are being explored to make nutrition interventions more effective and efficient in Kenya.…
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