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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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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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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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New modeling toolkit aids development planners in MENA countries
30.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MAI MAHMOUD Prioritization of rural investments is crucial for ensuring inclusive growth, sustain…
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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD Conference Highlights
30.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and h…
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IRRI and Korea strengthen partnership to improve country’s local rice sector
30.04.18-
Food security
IRRI is working closely with the Government of the Republic of Korea through its…
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Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Part 1, Daniel Gilligan)
29.04.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In this video, Daniel Gilligan, senior research fellow at IFPRI and leader of PIM's research…
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‘INCUBATED WORLDS’: Highlights of a unique art+poultry facility launched in Addis Ababa
29.04.18-
Food security
'INCUBATED WORLDS'—unique art+poultry facility—launched in Addis Read an article at Thoms…
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2018 GFPR Geneva Launch: Aligning investments, policies to build stronger food systems
27.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Governments and development organizations should take steps to better align their…
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Chickens for greater prosperity in rural Ethiopia
27.04.18-
Food security
‘We combine the ultramodern research facility in Ethiopia with the fascinating art installations o…
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New Index: Pro-WEAI Measures Women’s Empowerment, Agency, and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
26.04.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Pro-WEAI measures women’s empowerment and inclusion at the project level Helps projects to identif…
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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
26.04.18-
Big data
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Food security
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, INDIRA YERRAMAREDDY AND SURESH BABU The data era has arrived. Stakeholders, ent…
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Webinar: Measuring food losses: a new methodology
25.04.18-
Food security
Despite broad interest in the problem, measurement of food loss and waste is problematical, especial…
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Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
25.04.18-
Food security
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units commit delivery of good quality germplasm
25.04.18-
Food security
The GHU is composed of germplasm experts from CGIAR centers including AfricaRice, Bioversity Interna…
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Social forestry impacts local livelihoods in Indonesia
23.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
In a two-part series, the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forests News examin…
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…
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New advanced poultry facility combines art and science to boost nutrition and incomes in Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Woman farmer with her chicken, southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Camille Hanotte). On 26 April 2…
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Earth Day 2018: Solar-powered irrigation can boost rural development, but also poses risks
20.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Irrigation is one of the most effective means for boosting agricultural productio…
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GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…
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Enhancing seed quality in Sri Lanka through improved drying and storage
19.04.18-
Food security
IRRI and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations through the Closing Rice…
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