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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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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: The coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis
28.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally)…
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What the COVID-19 led Global Economic Recession could mean for Rice-Based Food Security in Asia
28.04.20-
Food security
By Harold Glenn A. Valera, Jean Balié, and Valerien O. Pede An economic slowdown…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
27.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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The COVID-19 nutritional crisis: What to expect and how to protect
27.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition. The…
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Reshaping food systems after COVID-19
26.04.20-
Food security
Food systems are undergoing transformations all over the world. How will COVID-19 shape those transf…
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A farewell to IFPRI Africa Director Ousmane Badiane
24.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Over his 30 years at IFPRI, recently-retired Director for Africa Ousmane Badiane…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
24.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Expert review examines impact of mycotoxins on dairy cattle health in sub-Saharan Africa
24.04.20-
Health
A new review paper published in the journal Toxins (April 2020) describes the major mycotoxins,…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
24.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019
23.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON An estimated 135 million people in 55 countries around the world faced…
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Out of the classroom and into the field
23.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
When farmers in rural Kasungu, Malawi, are asked to list some of the challenges they…
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The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protect
23.04.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL Nutrition has been a development priority for a decade. Many…
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Seeds of rural recovery: States must consider accommodating returnee migrants in small-farming
23.04.20-
Food security
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Health
Small and marginal farmers remain the dominant food producer and major workforce in India, and…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19's implications for food security, nutrition, and poverty
22.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions in…
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Why gender matters in COVID-19 responses – now and in the future
22.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY AGNES QUISUMBING, NEHA KUMAR, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER Controlling the COVID-19 p…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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