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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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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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Colombia’s "Peace with Nature" global biodiversity conference can point to successful peacebuilding collaborations with CGIAR
28.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
When a peace agreement was reached in 2016 after 62 years of Colombia’s brutal conflict…
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Bundled technologies of beans, insects and fruit trees are poised to transform Africa’s agriculture
25.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Funded by a CAD $20 million grant from Global Affairs Canada, BRAINS focuses on integrating…
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Multi-Donor Fund Unlocks Financing for Africa's Small and Medium-Sized Agricultural Enterprises
24.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Norway and USAID also announced that Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) – a pioneering impa…
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Scaling Optimized Fertilizer Use for Sustainable Maize Farming
23.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The event, organized under the Ukama Ustawi Initiative in Ethiopia, showcased the benefits of SSFR…
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Empowering Women and Youth Farmers in Tanzania Through Threshing Services
22.10.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Multi-Crop Thresher Machines (MCTs) Initiative - funded by the United States Agency for Internat…
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Achieving global biodiversity targets requires shifting food and land use system trajectories
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
The Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use and Energy (FABLE) consortium brings countries togethe…
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Empowering Counties: Building Capacity for GHG Reporting in Kenya’s Crop Production
22.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Kenya's crop subsector plays a crucial role in the country's economy, but it is also…
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Colombia se suma al Tratado Internacional de Semillas para fortalecer su agricultura
22.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
En un mundo en constante transformación por factores naturales, económicos y sociales, la diversid…
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Sino-African synergies: An alliance for sustainable food systems
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
On August 26, 2024, in Dakar, Senegal, a historic meeting marked a turning point in…
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A Next-Generation Catalog of Cultivated Bananas
22.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
We are living in an incredible time of advances in genomics. Technology is revolutionizing how…
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Rural Women Empowerment in Eastern DRC Through the Beans Value Chain
21.10.24-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Rural women are the backbone of agricultural activities in Africa, playing critical roles not only…
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Celebrating Open Knowledge: the Alliance at International Open Access Week 2024
21.10.24-
Big data
Since its inception in 2007, International Open Access Week has grown significantly, inspiring event…
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Announcement: 3rd International Agrobiodiversity Congress to be held in China
21.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
At the same time, it will: provide a platform for exchange and cooperation among policymakers,…
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Enhancing Sustainability of Community Seed Banks through Value Addition
21.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
Community seed banks (CSBs) play a crucial role in conserving agricultural biodiversity, particularl…
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Peeling back the Layers: A groundbreaking study on how nutritious bananas could help fight vitamin A deficiency in Uganda
21.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Vitamin A deficiency is a major health issue in Uganda, especially affecting young children and…
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Farmers as Guardians: Conserving Ghana's Minor Crops
21.10.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ghana's rich agrobiodiversity is increasingly threatened by the decreasing use of traditional minor …
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The CSAIP: A stepping stone towards resilient agriculture in Senegal
18.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Senegal is transforming its agriculture in response to climate change with the Climate Smart Agricul…
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Burkina Faso: When science and politics unite for resilient agriculture
17.10.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nestled in the heart of the Sahel, Burkina Faso is currently experiencing an unprecedented climate…
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