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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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Flattening the curve on foodborne illness and its costs in Africa
04.11.20-
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BY STEVEN JAFFEE AND DELIA GRACE Third of a series of blog posts on the…
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One Health in action: Research by ILRI and partners improves the health of people, animals and the environment
01.11.20-
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The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has brought into sharp focus the interconnectedn…
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Aflatoxin rapid detection technology wins Big Data Inspire Challenge 2020
30.10.20-
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A little box that can predict the amount of harmful aflatoxin contained in a handful…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving household food security and diet quality in Burundi
26.10.20-
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BY JEF L. LEROY, DEANNA K. OLNEY, MARIE RUEL, LILIA BLIZNASHKA AND TRACY BROWN Fourth…
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Diet diversification program for tribal women and children to be scaled up in South India
23.10.20-
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Enthused by positive nutritional outcomes among children and women in its first phase, activities of…
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Community-based training on milk hygiene improves knowledge, attitudes and practices of women pastoralists in Borana, Ethiopia
23.10.20-
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Milk and milk products are essential in the diets of the Borana pastoral community in…
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Book launch: Casting light on the ‘Invisible China’
22.10.20-
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BY TIMOTHY KAROFF “There is a familiar China that most people know,” write Scott Rozelle and …
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
19.10.20-
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International Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about open access publishing of…
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Field Notes: Boosting small-scale aquaculture productivity in inland Myanmar
19.10.20-
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Myanmar is one of the largest fish producers in the world. The country ranks among…
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Bethany Smith – Emerging Scientist Series
19.10.20-
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Bethany Smith is a junior researcher working remotely from Australia for the WorldFish Myanmar team.…
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Youth or Young mothers? The paradox of transitions in the rural women’s lives
16.10.20-
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Year 2020 is a unique year. We have spent most of it ‘surprised’ by the…
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Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot
16.10.20-
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same…
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Resilient rural women of the drylands
15.10.20-
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Special Feature: International Day of Rural Women – October 15 Long before COVID constraints crept…
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The Failing Food Systems: Can Aquatic Foods turn the tide?
15.10.20-
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Currently, 2 billion people around the world lack access to diverse, nutritious, and safe diets…
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Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
14.10.20-
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Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities c…
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Experts review policy innovation to improve milk safety in informal markets
13.10.20-
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A new research report (Oct 2020) by scientists from the International Institute for Environment and…
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Strong Women, Strong Nation
12.10.20-
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Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help…
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Au revoir, Paco
09.10.20-
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ICRISAT bids an emotional farewell to Dr Paco Sereme, a member of ICRISAT’s Governing Board…
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