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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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From smallholders to entrepreneurs, growing farmer resilience through Farmer Business Schools
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Gender equality
Rural Filipino farmers are reinventing themselves from smallholders to food-processing entrepreneurs…
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Sweetpotato jams and juices contribute to forest conservation in the Philippines
04.07.19The post Sweetpotato jams and juices contribute to forest conservation in the Philippines appeared f…
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Understanding farmers’ willingness to pay for root, tuber and banana crop planting material
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Experimental auctions reveal the true willingness of farmers to pay (WTP) for various farming inputs…
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CIP Trustee elected head of UN agriculture agency
24.06.19The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced on 23 June 2019…
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Millions at lower risk of vitamin A deficiency after six-year campaign to promote orange-fleshed sweetpotato
13.06.19EMBARGOED TO 00.01 CET, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 More than two million households across six…
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CIP bestows scientist emeritus status on three outstanding researchers
29.05.19The post CIP bestows scientist emeritus status on three outstanding researchers appeared first on In…
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David Ellis: Finding the balance between manager and scientist
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Biodiversity
Dave Ellis, who recently retired as leader of the International Potato Center genebank in Lima,…
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
14.05.19Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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Getting sweetpotato technologies into the hands of Mozambique’s vulnerable households
13.05.19In Mozambique’s Mucuba district – Zambezia province, a group of women farmers break into cel…
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Study endorses processing of biofortified sweetpotato-based baby food in reducing malnutrition
10.05.19Scientists at the International Potato Center (CIP) have welcomed a recent study supporting the comm…
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CIP showcases potato at China’s International Horticulture Exhibition
30.04.19With an exhibit at the International Horticultural Exhibition (Expo 2019) in Beijing, the Internatio…
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Malawian entrepreneur creates nutritious products and a new market for farmers
10.04.19“I established a partnership with CIP focused on perfecting various products made from OFSP, as…
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CIP revises its strategy and corporate plan to deliver impact at scale
02.04.19Rising demand for food in low- and middle-income countries is opening up new opportunities for…
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Scaling Triple S in Ghana
28.03.19In July 2018 Issahaq Suleman, CIP’s Triple S scaling champion in Ghana, paid a visit…
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Rwanda set to release first new potato varieties in almost three decades
18.03.19The potato is one of Rwanda’s most important crops, yet Rwandan farmers struggle to produce…
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Policy, people and potatoes in Kenya
14.03.19Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
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Gender equality
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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Four agricultural innovations putting women ahead
04.03.19How do we ensure vulnerable populations (women, young and displaced people) play an active role…
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