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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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Water security for sustainable dryland development
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The search for options to boost water productivity…
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Trees nurture nutrition
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
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Health
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Nutrition
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
14.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
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The critical and complex need to address food safety in Africa
13.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Solving the health problems of foodborne disease in Africa is only part of the food…
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New paper explores green growth strategy for the Philippines
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
A new paper examines the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippin…
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Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
11.02.19-
Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
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The 2018 Farm Bill is good news for international agricultural development
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Food security
The December passage of the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill is good news for professionals who develop and…
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There’s a new goal post for agriculture: It’s nutrition.
08.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This blog post is the first in a 3-part series accompanying the release of the…
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Is our global food system broken?
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Food security
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Nutrition
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
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Why empowering young people is key to ending global hunger and malnutrition
07.02.19-
Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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New report says investments in food safety in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritize the needs of local consumers
07.02.19-
Health
Donor investment in food safety in sub-Saharan Africa should have greater focus on the needs…
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Use of Targeted Genome Editing
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Food security
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Nutrition
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
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SciDev.net: Arsenic in groundwater – no silver bullet
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Environmental health
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Health
Soumya Balasubramanya tells SciDev.Net that the recommendations outlined in new United Nations Unive…
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In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers
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Food security
The villages of Barbote and Pyang are located in neighboring districts in the far west…
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Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia
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Environmental health
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Food security
Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. The…
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Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
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Food security
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Nutrition
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
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