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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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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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Whole grains
25.03.20-
Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Vaccines against this year’s novel (and world-changing) coronavirus are already in development and being tested—Good news from Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty
25.03.20-
Health
Positive news! While some COVID-19 surges are now ‘baked-in’, and we must prepare ourselves for…
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Livestock route mapping for improved health of humans, animals and the environment
25.03.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute is working on two new research projects in rangeland …
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COVID-19-measures, daily laborers and their nutrition│Analysis by Michael Hauser
24.03.20-
Food security
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Health
Containing COVID-19 is indispensable. But without social safety nets, the effects on daily laborer…
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Barren shelves: COVID-19 and panic buying of food │ Analysis by Michael Hauser
24.03.20-
Food security
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Health
People rush to supermarkets and buy what they can carry. Comprehensible, but unnecessary. To cut…
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TimesLive: Fears over handwashing in Africa to stem coronavirus seen as trigger for change
23.03.20-
Health
“In the water sector we always say 'Don't waste a good crisis'," said Inga Jacobs-Mata,…
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News Trust: Fears over handwashing in Africa to stem coronavirus seen as trigger for change
22.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Aid workers and advisors said countries should seize the moment ahead of World Water Day…
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New study explores the benefits of a One Health approach to investigating antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam
22.03.20-
Health
In Vietnam, antimicrobial resistance in animal and human health settings poses a significant threat,…
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Crowdsourced data feeds fall armyworm surveillance in Bangladesh
20.03.20-
Food security
Following the spread of fall armyworm, crowdsourced data is powering a web-based application to he…
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How much will global poverty increase because of COVID-19?
20.03.20-
Food security
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Health
In a recent blog post, we analyzed how the spread of the disease associated with the…
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COVID-19 is a deadly reminder that inclusive water supply and sanitation matters for all of us
20.03.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Since the COVID-19 crisis escalated, we have been reminded daily that one of the most…
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Nutrition, gender and breeding modernization: Focal points of West and Central Africa research agenda
20.03.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The spotlight was on biofortification, gender equity and breeding program modernization at the recen…
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Training and low-cost tech cut aflatoxin by 53 per cent
19.03.20-
Health
Aflatoxin exposure threatens food security throughout the developing world. Training and low-cost te…
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WHEAT carries on in the “new normal” of COVID-19
18.03.20-
Health
The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat and its lead center, the International Maize and Wheat…
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Scaling vitamin A-rich sweetpotato in Africa
18.03.20-
Food security
A look back at more than 25 years of work shows how innovation at all…
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8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change
18.03.20-
Health
As entire countries go on lockdown, factories close and international air travel grinds to a hal…
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COVID-19’s impact on China’s small and medium-sized businesses
17.03.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in Nov. 2019 in Hubei Province, China, business activity in the…
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Circular agriculture: A vision for sustainability
16.03.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
The future of food production is an urgent issue. Imagine that our ecosystems deteriorate to…
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