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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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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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Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
India’s northwest region is the most important production area for two staple cereals: rice and…
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IITA and Sierra Leone sign agreement to boost national crop production and food security
21.03.19-
Food security
IITA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Agriculture, …
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What’s good for business is good for forests in Indonesia
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Scientists in Indonesia are demonstrating how better business opportunities for local communities ca…
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International Forests Day: Two heads look to a future of restoration
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
This article is written by Robert Nasi , Director-General of Center for International Forestry Resea…
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The unfulfilled promise of farmer-led irrigation: How to include those left behind
21.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
For more than a decade, we’ve known that when African farmers themselves invest in irrigation,…
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Google Blog: Analyzing 3K rice genomes characterized by DeepVariant
21.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project (3K RGP) is a collaborative, international research program that has…
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Trainings in climate services for agriculture reach all of Rwanda
21.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The human body can predict. You can look to the sky and know it will…
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New publications: Biofortification of maize with provitamin A can reduce aflatoxin load
20.03.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Aflatoxins are harmful compounds that are produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, which can be f…
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We can provide economic incentives to address organic waste, IWMI/WLE tells Colombo business forum
20.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Much of the developing world, including Sri Lanka, is facing an organic waste challenge, but…
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Optima Soy Africa launched to scale up production and commercialization of industrial soybean varieties
20.03.19-
Food security
Heralding a significant milestone for soybean research in Africa, the recent launch of the Optima…
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A CCAFS-informed public-private partnership reaches 300,000 farmers with climate information
20.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana continuously witness alarming poverty rates…
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Four Surprising Ways Mode and Gender Can Transform Your Survey Data
19.03.19-
Big data
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Health
Mobile data collection technologies are increasingly being used to collect data remotely. However, t…
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From food security to nutrition security in India: A food systems perspective
19.03.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To understand the causes of malnutrition, we need to look at people’s diets, where they…
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Food for thought from Sri Lanka on World Water Day 2019
19.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How farmers have taken charge of their destiny by using motor pumps for irrigation. Except…
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Vietnam adopts pre-emptive measures in the Mekong River Delta against El Niño
19.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In the Mekong River Delta (MRD), over 1.7 million hectares of land are being used…
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Stakeholders meet discusses solutions to unshackle Myanmar’s groundnut value chain
18.03.19-
Food security
Why does an ageing variety command 20% of land under groundnut cultivation? How can existing…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
15.03.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakeholder res…
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Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya
13.03.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely i…
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