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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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Double harvest for half the effort
21.08.20-
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Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonpea farmer from Karonga district in Malawi. He relies on the…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
20.08.20-
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The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
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Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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Book launch: COVID-19 and global food security - what have we learned so far?
17.08.20-
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BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post is based on remarks delivered during the Aug. 4 launch event for the…
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Digital defenses: Can high-tech insurance flood-proof vulnerable farmers?
14.08.20-
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When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. This was…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
14.08.20-
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A soil-borne pathogen, new to chickpea growing regions in India, was detected during a real-time…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
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A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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Legumes grow money: Success script of seed systems in Malawi
14.08.20-
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An estimated US$ 40 million per annum, up from US$ 17 million in 2009, was…
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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
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What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
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Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Zinc study suggests possible role for biofortification in addressing non-communicable diseases
12.08.20-
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By Laura Pompano and Erick Boy The double burden of malnutrition is a rapidly growing…
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Policy seminar: How food businesses are coping with COVID-19
10.08.20-
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By Swati Malhotra The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the world’s economy, food syste…
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What have we learned about the Science of Scaling?
09.08.20-
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One Acre Fund works with approximately 450,000 farm households in Rwanda, and is collaborating with…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
07.08.20-
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High-yielding chickpea and finger millet varieties with yield potential of up to 3 tons per…
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Harvesting rains to grow fruit, vegetables and improved crops at watershed learning sites in India
07.08.20-
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This cropping season, observing all safety measures amidst the COVID pandemic, more than a 1,000…
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New ICRISAT groundnut varieties to be available from the next season
07.08.20-
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Two new groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content developed by ICRISAT in association with…
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New directions for agricultural value chain finance in Viet Nam
07.08.20-
Food security
By Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw , and Sylvan Herskowitz There is a global need…
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Boosting restoration through the airwaves
07.08.20-
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Radio programs are spreading the good work of the Regreening Africa project in Senegal ‘Good…
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