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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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Foresight, climate change, and agrifood systems
11.07.23-
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By James Thurlow and Faaiqa Hartley Climate change poses significant challenges for global economic …
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WorldFish and Norway join forces to promote climate-smart technologies for aquaculture in Egypt
11.07.23-
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WorldFish embarked on a groundbreaking initiative with Norway aimed at refining, testing, and scalin…
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Consultation to shape livestock futures: inputs into ILRI’s new strategy for 2024-2030
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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has long been at the forefront of innovative r…
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How public-private partnerships will revolutionize women farmer empowerment in rural Ghana
10.07.23-
Gender equality
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The Women Rear project, a collaboration of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), CA…
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures
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As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+)…
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A farmers’ cooperative in Kenya receives a modern seed dressing machine to boost Kenya’s rice production
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
NAIROBI, Kenya (26 June 2023)- In a transformative move to increase rice seed production and…
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How we are professionalizing breeding research management processes
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Nutrition, health & food security
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CGIAR breeding programs and Centers have been coming together as One CGIAR, to ensure smallholders…
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Addressing the knowledge gap on the financial needs of firms in the midstream of agricultural value chains
27.06.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Kate Ambler, Jeffrey R. Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Sylvan Herskowitz OPEN ACCESS |…
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Pooling intergenerational beekeeping knowledge
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Biodiversity
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Since 2019, the AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Women project (AID-CSB) has worked with beeke…
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NATURE+ Initiative to provide policymakers with tools needed to incentivize nature-positive agriculture
22.06.23-
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Authors: Kristin Davis (International Food Policy Research Institute – IFPRI), Sean Mattson (Allia…
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IRRI-Africa completes training of trainers on quality rice seeds production in Burundi
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Nutrition, health & food security
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi (12 May 2023) A training of trainers on quality rice seeds production was…
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Access and control of resources and participation in rice-breeding activities among men and women farmers in Southern Ghana
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Women in Ghana have been found to adopt high-yielding varieties and improved management systems at…
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Catalyzing Scaling in East and Southern Africa: Unlocking the Region's Potential
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Nutrition, health & food security
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East and Southern Africa, with its diverse landscapes, rich natural resources, and a burgeoning popu…
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Can phone surveys be used in standard poverty measurement? Evidence from Ethiopia
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, Gashaw T. Abate, and Abdulazize Wolle OPEN ACCESS |…
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Empowering women through hygienic dried fish production and marketing in Odisha
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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In a significant step towards empowering women in the aquatic foods production sector, WorldFish has…
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Stakeholders challenge norms constraining women in agri-food systems
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In a world experiencing rapid climate change, harmful gender norms play a significant role in…
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CGIAR and FARA launch unified action to accelerate Agricultural Transformation in Africa
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[Durban, 6 June 2023] – CGIAR and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)…
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Africa needs agricultural innovation to achieve the full potential of AfCFTA
05.06.23-
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Agriculture should be prioritised as a test case for AfCFTA adoption to spur not only…
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