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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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Using coffee ceremonies to address intimate partner violence in Ethiopia: Evidence from Unite for a Better Life
08.12.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY VANDANA SHARMA, NEGUSSIE DEYESSA, JESSICA LEIGHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Intimate partner violence (IP…
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Lancet Countdown 2020 report calls for governments to align global COVID-19 recovery with response to climate change
06.12.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change represent converging challenges to which no continent, coun…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Sergio Macedo Gomes de Mattos
04.12.20-
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Estimating the burden of child acute malnutrition accurately
03.12.20-
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO BARBA, LIEVEN HUYBREGTS AND JEF LEROY Across the world, 144 million children under…
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Reducing air pollution in China’s urban areas can improve local housing markets
03.12.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN China’s air pollution is among the worst in the…
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Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar
01.12.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY DEREK HEADEY, THAN ZAW OO, KRISTI MAHRT, XINSHEN DIAO, SOPHIE GOUDET AND ISABEL LAMBRECHT…
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How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries
01.12.20-
Environmental health
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"If the world is to achieve the UN’s goal of providing adequate sanitation and ending…
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Newly launched millet food finder shows a revolution is underway
27.11.20-
Food security
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Millets have sometimes been hailed as the next quinoa but researchers collating a global database…
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Use of scientific evidence for greater partnerships and better policies
27.11.20-
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Surveys on agricultural technology adoption in Nigeria carried out in 2019-2020 revealed gains made …
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WorldFish joins united effort to boost climate-smart food systems in Malawi
27.11.20-
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In Malawi, land and aquatic food systems engage 80 percent of the population playing a…
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Dried small fish powder provides opportunity for child health in Myanmar
27.11.20-
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As the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need for nutritious diets, efforts to promote dried small…
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Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
26.11.20-
Food security
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The impact Covid-19 has had on farmers has been devastating. Harvest delays due to mobility…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Hunter Synder
19.11.20-
Biodiversity
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
18.11.20-
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Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
17.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
17.11.20-
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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New research in Vietnam shows holistic approach to school-based interventions required to promote healthy eating among children
04.11.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research study by scientists from Vietnam's National Institute of Nutrition and the CGIAR…
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