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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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Evidence from Malawi: Why agricultural and nutrition education programs should engage both women and men in households
14.05.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Gender norms and inequalities are an important factor in Malawi’s ongoing food security problems. …
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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
13.05.19-
Food security
On May 6, a global panel of scientists representing more than 130 nations released the…
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Balangiga Farmer – Fisherfolk women learn how to make food products from dried cassava grates
08.05.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Who knew so many different products could be made from cassava? Now thanks to the…
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On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist
08.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that …
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Global Report on Food Crises 2019: Conflict, climate, and economic shocks keep acute hunger levels above 100 million
07.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With only a slight fall in the number of people facing acute levels of hunger…
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A different focus on stunting
06.05.19-
Nutrition
Is stunting the problem we need to solve, or the indicator of the problems we…
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Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
06.05.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works prog…
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An Integrated, Economically-Sustainable Cassava Seed System is Emerging in Nigeria
02.05.19-
Food security
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The project “Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS)” c…
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DG Sanginga graces handover of aflatoxin laboratory and launch of Aflasafe in Malawi
02.05.19-
Food security
During the recent handover of the Aflatoxin Research and Training laboratory in Malawi on 10…
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New case study presents nine-year follow-up of pilot project to improve food safety in Bodija market, Nigeria
01.05.19-
Health
A case study published in the March 2019 issue of the journal Infection Ecology & Epidemiology…
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Policy outreach to mainstream SIMLESA learning: Q&A with Paswel Marenya
30.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Af…
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Global team cracks genetic code to develop high-yielding, climate resilient chickpea
30.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Research also maps the center of origin and migration route of chickpea In a major…
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More research on African swine fever is urgently needed: No cure, no vaccine and no treatment yet exists for this lethal pig disease
30.04.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Pigs at the commerical drestry farm industry (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) African swine fever …
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New study identifies best agronomic practices to reduce fall armyworm damage
27.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The fall armyworm, an invasive insect-pest native to the Americas, has caused significant damage to…
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Ending undernutrition requires a different focus on stunting
26.04.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Anyone following international development is probably familiar with “stunting”—which in nonte…
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Ask the researchers: Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition project
26.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Researchers with Bioversity International recently shared information on the Biodiversity for Food a…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
26.04.19-
Food security
A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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“We are developing environmentally sustainable and productive livestock systems”: Michael Peters
25.04.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Michael Peters and his team have been developing tropical forage varieties that enable improved anim…
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