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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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-
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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Today is World Food Safety Day—Watch why safe food matters are life-and-death matters to poor people worldwide
07.06.19-
Health
Today, 7 Jun 2019, is the first-ever World Food Safety Day! #WorldFoodSafetyDay Here, for your…
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Will climate change make us go hungry by 2050?
07.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
May it be a lawsuit filed by 21 young plaintiffs against the United States or…
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Policy seminar: The true cost of eating right – are nutritious diets becoming more accessible?
06.06.19-
Nutrition
Is healthy eating becoming more affordable on a global scale? Consumers in places like Africa…
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World Congress on Agroforestry kicks off today
05.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Monday 20 May 2019, Montpellier, France– The Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry opens today. …
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Business models from the edge: Finding the green in sunshine, soil and sludge
05.06.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
This week marks World Environment Day, and we search for solutions on how to better…
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Employment, diversifying rural livelihoods, and youth: Lessons for Ghana from the 2019 Global Food Policy Report
05.06.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara, rural households earn their incomes primarily from…
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System uses plants to lure fall armyworm away from maize fields
04.06.19-
Food security
Climate conditions in Nepal are suitable for the establishment of fall armyworm, which could cause…
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A burning issue: How sustainable agriculture is helping mitigate air pollution in South Asia
04.06.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Pollution has become a part of our daily life: particulate matter in the air we…
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A4NH releases 2018 annual report
03.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health has published its 2018 annual…
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Strengthening ties to secure farm livelihoods in Niger
31.05.19-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Niger is among the youngest nations in the world with two-thirds of its population under…
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India’s first ‘high oleic’ groundnut varieties ready to go commercial
30.05.19-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Will serve up healthier oil with longer shelf life After eight years of collaborative work,…
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HarvestPlus welcomes new UK commitment to support biofortification
30.05.19-
Nutrition
On May 23, HarvestPlus announced a major new commitment by the government of the United Kingdom to…
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Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?
29.05.19-
Nutrition
The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue.…
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To transform the global food system and feed the world sustainably, start at the local level
28.05.19-
Food security
In a recent meeting with a developing country policy maker, I was asked which among…
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Banana improvement project team meets to take stock, track progress and plan
27.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
An international team of researchers that is revolutionizing banana breeding in Eastern Africa are t…
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Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials
27.05.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…
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Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource
27.05.19-
Food security
Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil sci…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
25.05.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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