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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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How India’s food-based safety net is responding to the COVID-19 lockdown
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)13.04.20-
Food security
COVID-19 poses an extraordinary challenge for India, both for infectious disease control and for mai…
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Addressing COVID-19 impacts on fish and aquatic food systems
WorldFish12.04.20-
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Health
WorldFish and partners join forces in research response As the COVID-19 pandemic continues …
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Will COVID-19 cause another food crisis? An early review
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)10.04.20-
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BY JOHAN SWINNEN COVID-19 is disrupting economies around the world, but will it cause a…
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COVID-19-measures, daily laborers and their nutrition
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)10.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Drive along any major road connecting an African city with the hinterland early in the…
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Farm health in times of corona: Govt must ensure the agri supply-chain remains uninterrupted
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)10.04.20-
Health
The evolving situation around Covid-19 is becoming critical. Governments have already announced guid…
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Why the world needs inclusive food systems now more than ever
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)10.04.20-
Food security
The 2020 Global Food Policy Report is now out, with a sharp focus on creating…
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Colombian Farmers Donate Zinc Rice to Coronavirus-Stricken Cartagena
HarvestPlus09.04.20-
Nutrition
"One by one we are all mortal. Together, we are eternal." These words of solidarity,…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Addressing COVID-19 impacts on agriculture, food security, and livelihoods in India
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY S. MAHENDRA DEV With COVID-19 now spreading in India, massive consequences to health and…
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Strengthening city-region food systems during and beyond COVID-19
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)08.04.20-
Food security
Cities, like any area where population densities peak, are hot spots for the spread of…
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Lessons on tackling the growing risk of emerging infectious diseases in Africa
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)08.04.20-
Health
As part of a new blog series on COVID-19, scientists from the International Food Policy…
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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)08.04.20-
Health
The outbreak of COVID-19 is a rude awakening to many who believed the era of…
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Is COVID19 a threat to the stability of rice price and supply?
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)08.04.20-
Food security
by Jean Balié and Harold G. Valera As governments around the world are realizing the…
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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)08.04.20-
Health
BY BERNARD BETT, DELIA RANDOLPH AND JOHN MCDERMOTT The outbreak of COVID-19 is a rude awakening to…
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How India’s food-based safety net is responding to the COVID-19 lockdown
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DEVESH ROY, RUCHIRA BOSS AND MAMATA PRADHAN COVID-19 poses an extraordinary challenge for Indi…
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Global Food Policy Report 2020: Inclusive food systems can help build resilience to withstand pandemics and other shocks
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)06.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JOHAN SWINNEN As the world battles the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
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Fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Some thoughts for developing countries and the international community
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)05.04.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Rich countries have introduced massive health and public spending programs …
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)03.04.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project This compilation of real-life ‘impact…
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