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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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Strengthen markets to aid India's farmers
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AVINASH KISHORE The Indian government’s renaming the Ministry of Agriculture as the Ministry …
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How governments can monitor progress towards better nutrition
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Food security
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Nutrition
Stochastic Impact Evaluation is being used to model the impacts of policies and other decisions…
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What's so special about Science Forum 2018?
04.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In this video, Maggie Gill (ISPC Chair), Jennifer Thomson (ISPC & SF18 Steering Committee Chair)…
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Can our environment survive our food needs? We asked 11 eminent water scientists
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Environmental health
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Food security
As the world marks World Environment Day this week, we ponder the links between our…
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Africa RISING looks back at what the project achieved in ‘intensifying’ agriculture in its first five years
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa RISING is implementing activities with youthful farmers in Bababti District, northern Tanzani…
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Russia’s Economic Recovery to Improve Food Security in Eurasia through Trade and Investment
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Food security
May 30, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Economic recovery in Russia supported by the significant upturns in…
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Africa’s first biofortified pearl millet variety aims to combat anaemia
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Food security
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Nutrition
For millions of women and children in Africa anaemia is a significant public health concern—and…
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Global meeting brings together world’s foremost potato experts
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Food security
More than 800 potato scientists, industry representatives, government officials and other interested…
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Opportunities and Challenges for CGIAR in a Changing World
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Food security
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Nutrition
The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently convened its 17th meeting at the F…
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How trade wars threaten food security
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY WILL MARTIN AND DAVID LABORDE What began as heated rhetoric over trade between the United…
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Rice and Reason: Planning for System Complexity in the Indus Basin
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Food security
The summary of this scenario development workshop and a Vision for the Indus Basin will…
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From 'Look East' and 'Act East,' India must 'Think Big' and 'Act Big'
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANMEET AJMANI AND DEVESH ROY India's Republic Day Jan. 26 marked a significant change in the…
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Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa
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Environmental health
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Food security
A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives …
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New Study: Status of Child Stunting in India
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stunting prevalence in India is high (38.4%) and varies considerably across districts (from 12.4% to…
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India’s district-focused strategy to reduce childhood stunting must also address women’s wellbeing and poverty reduction, finds new study
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
71% of differences in stunting prevalence between low and high burden districts are explained by…
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2018 GFPR The Hague launch: Putting together policy building blocks for global food security
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Food security
BY IDA RADEMAKER AND VANESSA NIGTEN Panelists at the April 18 launch event for IFPRI’s 2018 Gl…
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Agroforestry gives Kenyan indigenous community a lifeline
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Environmental health
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Food security
The Cherangani people of Kenya were for generations reliant on the forest for hunting, gathering…
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Governance of Natural Resources research in PIM
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Environmental health
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Why do property rights for land and other natural resources matter? How do they affect…
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