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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Research busts common myths about agricultural labor in Africa, suggests a shift in mechanization policy
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)25.04.19-
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New farm-level research into agricultural labor in eastern and southern Africa found that a lack…
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Launch of CIPRiSSA-Gambia report
AfricaRice24.04.19-
Food security
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has mandated AfricaRice to lead the development of ‘Continenta…
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Scientists discuss ways to improve RTB planting materials
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)24.04.19-
Food security
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Cross-cutting Cluster 2.1 had its…
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Food systems innovations for healthier diets: A conceptual framework
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)24.04.19-
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Nutrition
The Food Systems for Healthier Diets flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for…
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CGIAR Science Council urges focus on urbanization in Agriculture & Food Systems 2050 Report
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)24.04.19-
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The CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently launched 'Agriculture & F…
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Corteva and CGIAR Sign Memorandum of Understanding
CGIAR23.04.19-
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Food is the most basic human need and the engine of economic development. Yet while…
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CIMMYT and Clinton Foundation launch partnership to improve access to climate-resilient maize seed in eastern and southern Africa
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)22.04.19-
Food security
Working together to improve access to and availability of climate-resilient maize varieties in easte…
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FoodSTART+ featured in the latest iMPACT magazine issue
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)22.04.19-
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FoodSTART+ Principal Investigator, Diego Naziri, and CIAT Market Access Specialist, Brice Even share…
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IFPRI/A4NH at the Purdue Global Hunger Colloquium: Policy innovation is key to accelerating progress
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.04.19-
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Leading figures in the global fight against hunger gathered at Purdue University April 10-11 for…
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YIIFSWA-II hosts 3rd Annual progress review and planning meeting in Accra
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)21.04.19-
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IITA, lead implementer of the Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa…
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Eating stories: On the contested future of meat–with, and without, feet
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)18.04.19-
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Sketch of three people sharing a meal by Vincent Van Gogh (Van Gogh Gallery). In…
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A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)18.04.19-
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Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through…
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Are we reducing hunger in the world?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.04.19-
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It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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The research-practitioner divide: Why we are still optimistic
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)16.04.19-
Food security
Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects for…
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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)16.04.19-
Food security
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The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)15.04.19-
Big data
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Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
AfricaRice15.04.19-
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Gender equality
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This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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