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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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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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Rural vitalization: What lessons can China learn from international experiences?
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG Despite China’s impressive progress in reducing poverty, hunger, and nutrition ov…
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Sowing the seeds of rice self-sufficiency in Africa through capacity building
04.04.18-
Food security
Workshop participants discuss constraints in the production and delivery of quality rice seed in Uga…
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Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees?
04.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Agroforestry can make a key contribution to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which aims to…
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The sweet secrets of Mt. Mutis
02.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Once upon a time, there was a scientist who traveled to West Timor, Indonesia to…
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Water for Food: PhilRice and IRRI jointly organized field day to create awareness on sustainable water management
02.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
After the field demonstration, the participants were shown other water-saving technologies. Engr. Le…
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2018 GFPR India launch: India’s time to focus on farmers
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Food security
Against the backdrop of rising concerns over farm distress in India, and a farmers’ protest movem…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Nutrition-sensitive approach lowers anemia prevalence in Burundi
29.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Evidence shows that food-assisted maternal and child health and nutri…
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The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
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Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern…
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Innovations in food systems: the key to human and planetary health
27.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SHENGGEN FAN The world has made tremendous progress in improving food security and nutrition.…
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IRRI and Philippine Science and Technology Department partner to advance scientific and technological collaboration
27.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
26 March 2018, Los Baños, Philippines – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the…
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Unleash the power of young Africans: Supporting the farmers of tomorrow
26.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KANAYO F. NWANZE The number of young people between ages 15 and 24 is growing…
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Shirley Tarawali on convergence in consumption of milk, meat, eggs at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
26.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
(Left) moderator Nathalie Randin and keynote speaker Shirley Tarawali at an expert panel session of…
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Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…
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2018 Global Food Policy Report tracks impacts of antiglobalism and outlines key reforms
23.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The rise of anti-globalization politics and policies around the world poses threa…
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Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of…
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Workshop on Enhancing Pulses Productivity in Eastern India
22.03.18-
Food security
West Bengal, India, March 3 – ICARDA India conducted a day-long training for farmers to…
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