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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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-
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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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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
03.05.21-
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BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
29.04.21-
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
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BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
26.04.21-
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The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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Gender researchers highlight approaches to achieving equal opportunities
22.04.21-
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Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are a WorldFish-pioneered innovation that has been in contin…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
22.04.21-
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Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
21.04.21-
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BY WEI ZHANG AND JESSICA WALLACH Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sus…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers rare chance for food systems transformation
21.04.21-
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both th…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
21.04.21-
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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Using Wild Relatives to Toughen up Staple Crops
18.04.21-
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Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the ancient ancestors of our domesticated crops. Because they have…
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Tana Lala-Pritchard awarded 2020 Distinguished Alumna by Alpha Chi National Honor Society
14.04.21-
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WorldFish executive director of Strategy, Innovation, and Communications, Tana Lala-Pritchard, is…
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Guidelines support COVID-safe fish transporting
11.04.21-
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Approximately 200 metric tons of live fish are transported to markets every day in Bangladesh.…
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RTB crops surge in developing countries
04.04.21-
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The production of root, tuber and banana crops (RTB crops) in developing countries has surged…
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Climate security in the Mekong Delta: Interview with PhD researcher Dung Phuong Le for Womens History Month
30.03.21-
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Written by Nina de Ayala Parker Photo credit: Marco Verch Snaking through six countries in…
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Peter Hotez at ILRI on vaccines and misinformation
29.03.21-
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Peter Jay Hotez, an American pediatrician and leading international vaccine advocate, spoke out agai…
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Climate security in the Ganges deltas: Interview with PhD researcher Suza Ma for Womens History Month
29.03.21-
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Written by Nina de Ayala Parker. The Ganges Delta - like deep-set veins seeping through the land…
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How gender affects patterns of asset ownership and control in Egypt
28.03.21-
Gender equality
A recent study conducted by ICARDA’s Gender Scientist Dr. Dina Najjar, published in Feminist Econo…
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Building seed business hubs around women and youth in Tanzania
26.03.21-
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Working with private seed companies, ICRISAT is helping integrate more women and youth into seed…
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