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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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Network analysis reveals where to act effectively in seed systems
26.11.19-
Food security
An innovative approach to seed systems, spearheaded by scientists working with the CGIAR Research Pr…
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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
26.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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New world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
25.11.19-
Food security
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score…
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How a disease without borders was contained
25.11.19-
Food security
t’s been eight years since maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported on the African…
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Research: Cash transfers significantly decrease violence against women in polygamous households in Mali
22.11.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The new paper investigates the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri) on …
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
22.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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IITA scientist highlights healthy diets at World Food Day seminar
22.11.19-
Food security
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on 16 October and dedicated to tackle hunger…
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Nutrition Society of Nigeria annual conference: Opportunities for experience sharing across A4NH flagships, between Nigeria and Ethiopia
21.11.19-
Nutrition
The annual conference of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria held in Abuja in September 2019…
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Policy seminar: Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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More vaccination, not antibiotics, needed for Kenyan livestock—Straight talk by Sidai Chair Christie Peacock
21.11.19-
Food security
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Health
The following interview of Christie Peacock was conducted at the February 2019 launch of the…
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Healthy diets feature both whole- and refined-grain foods, new study shows
20.11.19-
Nutrition
Grain-based foods — both whole-grain and refined, from which the bran has been removed —…
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Can we ignore risk when we study the effects of climate change on agriculture? Research in Zambia tells us that we should not
20.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries and those im…
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Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement
20.11.19-
Nutrition
Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World…
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Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts
20.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
“Essential.” “Obvious.” “The model of the future.” Last month, when more than 1,200 scie…
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Some lessons from a life in food policy
19.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
When I was 15 years old, I learned something startling about myself. For the first…
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ILRI and China’s Nanjing Agricultural University commit to deepen collaboration for livestock research and capacity development
19.11.19-
Food security
Chancellor Chen Ligen of Nanjing University with ILRI director general Jimmy Smith (photo credit: IL…
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New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
19.11.19-
Nutrition
Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution ICRISAT’s chickpe…
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