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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
 Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with the unveiling of ICRISAT’s…
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Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
21.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in pearl millet’, …
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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Food security
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
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Does rural Africa have a 'youth problem'?
19.02.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of…
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Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers
18.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya is the world’s third largest producer of avocados. It’s also Kenya’s leading fruit exp…
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Second Biennial Review report highlights urgent need to accelerate progress toward achieving Malabo Declaration goals by 2025
17.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders pledged to conduct a continent-wide Biennial Review…
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Spraying locust swarm is ineffective – IITA entomologist
17.02.20-
Food security
As Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya battle huge swarms of desert locusts, great efforts are underway…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
14.02.20-
Health
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Nutrition
USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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How China can address threats to food and nutrition security from the coronavirus outbreak
12.02.20-
Food security
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Health
The current novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) outbreak originated from a seafood and wild foo…
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Policy seminar: Can trade ensure food security and access to diverse and sustainable nutrition?
11.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The global trade conflicts of the past couple of years have created uncertainty for agriculture,…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
11.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato…
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India’s 16-point agriculture plan may falter if it doesn’t focus on incentives
10.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
One of the great examples that economists give on the power of incentives in Econ…
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IRRI India, IRRI SARC, convene on Transforming Food Systems through Sustainable Value Chains
10.02.20-
Food security
04 February Delhi, India - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) South Asia Office in…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
07.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato growing…
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Indo-Australia genomics project for chickpea drought tolerance gains momentum
07.02.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
India and Australia have joined hands in a multi-institutional project to enhance drought tolerance …
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Aflasafe can reduce exposure to cancer-causing toxins and promote farmer access to premium markets
06.02.20-
Health
“If someone eats this maize, which may contain high aflatoxin levels, they may die and…
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