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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
16.05.25-
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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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Six lessons learned from a year of multiple crises: Beyond the Russian invasion of Ukraine
05.05.23-
Food security
by David Laborde, Lysiane Lefebvre, Francine Picard and Valeria Piñeiro OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 As…
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IFPRI-BIMSTEC MoU signing: Transforming agrifood systems in the Bay of Bengal region
03.05.23by Anisha Mohan OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 More than 355 regional trade agreements are currently in e…
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HarvestPlus: Twenty years of enriching diets with biofortification
28.04.23-
Nutrition
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Nutrition, health & food security
by Arun Baral OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 It is an important year for biofortification: 2023…
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Eastern European farmers protest gluts of Ukraine food exports: The struggle to keep solidarity lanes open
26.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
by Rob Vos and Joseph Glauber OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Following fierce farm protests over…
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Earth Day 2023: Empowering local communities as stewards of Earth’s freshwater resources
21.04.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
by Wei Zhang and Ruth Meinzen-Dick OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Freshwater resources such as rivers, lak…
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FAO Status of Women in Agrifood Systems report: Reflecting on a decade of measuring progress in women’s empowerment
19.04.23by Agnes Quisumbing OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 I was recently in Rome attending the April…
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We must build food system resilience before the next crisis
17.04.23by Katrina Kosec and Johan Swinnen OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In February 2022, news of…
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2023 Global Food Policy Report calls for rethinking food crisis responses
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
April 13, 2023, Washington, D.C. The 2023 Global Food Policy Report, released by the International…
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Food versus Fuel v2.0: Biofuel policies and the current food crisis
11.04.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
by Joseph Glauber and Charlotte Hebebrand OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Policies to boost biofuel producti…
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Increasing financial access in Ethiopia through mobile money: Results from experiments to catalyze enrollment and use among women and refugees
10.04.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Alan de Brauw OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The mobile money revolution has begun to…
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The Russia-Ukraine war’s impact on global food markets: A historical perspective
06.04.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER, DAVID LABORDE, AND JOHAN SWINNEN The Russia-Ukraine war has focused global atten…
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International Day of Zero Waste: Reducing loss and waste in fruit and vegetable supply chains
30.03.23-
Food security
by Swati Malhotra OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 March 30 is the International Day of Zero Waste, which…
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How relative poverty influences responses to social protection programs: Evidence from Pakistan
28.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Regional war, global consequences: Mounting damages to Ukraine’s agriculture and growing challenges for global food security
27.03.23-
Food security
by Pavlo Martyshev, Oleg Nivievsyi and Mariia Bogonos OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Russia’s all-out …
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IFPRI-AMIS policy seminar – Ukraine One Year Later: The impact of the war on agricultural markets and food security
24.03.23-
Food security
by Charlotte Hebebrand OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 With the Russia-Ukraine war entering its second year,…
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World Water Day 2023: Cooperation for accelerating change in the Niger River Basin
24.03.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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BY NIANDOU MOUNKAILA, OUSMANE SEIDOU, CLAUDIA RINGLER, AND ROBERT KRANEFELD OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4…
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Journée mondiale de l'eau: Coopération pour accélérer le changement
22.03.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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BY NIANDOU MOUNKAILA, OUSMANE SEIDOU, CLAUDIA RINGLER, AND ROBERT KRANEFELD OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.…
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The political economy of reforming costly agricultural policies
20.03.23by Danielle Resnick, Rob Vos and Will Martin OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 This post first appeared on…
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