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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
Big data
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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Diet diversification program for tribal women and children to be scaled up in South India
23.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Enthused by positive nutritional outcomes among children and women in its first phase, activities of…
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Community-based training on milk hygiene improves knowledge, attitudes and practices of women pastoralists in Borana, Ethiopia
23.10.20-
Health
Milk and milk products are essential in the diets of the Borana pastoral community in…
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Survey: China’s small and medium-sized enterprises rebounded after the COVID-19 lockdown, but economic problems linger
22.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XIAOBO ZHANG COVID-19 has made the issue of resilience of the world’s food supply…
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On World Food Day, India PM Modi Endorses Biofortification to Address Malnutrition
22.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a strong endorsement to staple crop biofortification a…
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Webinar reveals approaches for breeders to save time and money, cut waste – and deliver for clients
22.10.20-
Food security
How can breeders and other researcher programs continually improve their processes and products? An…
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Book launch: Casting light on the ‘Invisible China’
22.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF “There is a familiar China that most people know,” write Scott Rozelle and …
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Somalia agriculture partners learn about integrated fall armyworm control practices
21.10.20-
Food security
Fall armyworm continues to cause havoc in Africa. Farmers in Somalia have not been spared…
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Book launch: Agricultural extension evolves to address a rapidly changing world
20.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Through its programs that educate farmers and apply scientific research in the…
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WUR and CGIAR working together to equip future researchers, managers and leaders to address challenges in multifunctional foodscapes
20.10.20-
Food security
The current pandemic is proving the urgent need to find more inclusive, holistic, sustainable and…
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Five lessons on how to encourage open sharing of standardized data for sustainable agricultural growth
20.10.20-
Food security
Standardized data on agronomic traits - from soil types to weather patterns - can power…
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Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day
20.10.20-
Food security
Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…
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Climate-smart innovations can boost aquatic food systems productivity in Bangladesh, says climate change expert
20.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Climate-smart innovations are urgently needed to help poor and vulnerable aquatic food system actors…
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
19.10.20-
Health
International Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about open access publishing of…
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Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
19.10.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
19.10.20-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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How alternative views on food systems lead to different food policies
19.10.20-
Food security
The authors detail their recent study of differences and similarities among more than 30 recent…
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The impact of COVID-19 on the food system in Nairobi
18.10.20-
Food security
There have been far reaching effects on Nairobi’s economy following the COVID-19 crisis, with the…
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Resource-poor women farmers benefit by forming collectives
18.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Collectives enhance productivity and improve livelihoods Poor and landless farmers can sustainably i…
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