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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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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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New funding for CGIAR breeding to boost food and nutrition security in Africa
25.04.23-
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Project aims to harness the untapped potential of root, tuber, and banana crops CGIAR is…
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Harnessing crop breeding data: AfricaRice transitions to Enterprise Breeding System
20.04.23-
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If you visit AfricaRice breeding stations in Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria and Senegal, you mi…
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A new paper on seaweed explores its potential in nourishing low- and middle-income nations
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Globally, seaweed production has grown by nearly 75 percent in the past decade. What started…
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What can Bengaluru learn from Vietnam’s agricultural revolution?
12.04.23-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leading agricultural economist from Vietnam highlights the ways their national government reformed t…
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Increasing financial access in Ethiopia through mobile money: Results from experiments to catalyze enrollment and use among women and refugees
10.04.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Alan de Brauw OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The mobile money revolution has begun to…
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How can a new narrative on pastoralism influence development policy and practice?
03.04.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the face of climate and economic uncertainty, reframing the narrative to better include pastorali…
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Mainstreaming women’s participation in aquaculture for sustainable livelihoods
29.03.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Aquaculture has expanded significantly as an industry in Bangladesh over the last 20 years. It…
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How relative poverty influences responses to social protection programs: Evidence from Pakistan
28.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
by Katrina Kosec and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Diversifying rice-based cropping systems under natural farming in Uttar Pradesh with peppermint
27.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Barabanki Region of Uttar Pradesh started cultivating peppermint to improve their pro…
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Partnering with Odisha Government to empower women through aquatic foods production
27.03.23-
Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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The Government of Odisha has signed a new 5-year agreement with WorldFish to uplift women…
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IRRI Education introduces more than 50 micromodules for enhanced online learning
16.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI Education, the educational arm of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), is driving …
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Impressed with ChatGPT's agricultural knowledge? CGIAR's open access effort (probably)* enabled it.
14.03.23-
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Featured image: "A group of researchers with diverse background amazed at chatgpt response on comput…
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Overcome the 'digital divide' to enable inclusive agricultural transformation
08.03.23-
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Image credit: IWMI As internet access improves around the world, it is becoming clear that…
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Do women sell crops for the same price as men?
07.03.23-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jeffrey Dickinson (American University) and Jawoo Koo (IFPRI). Photo credit: CIFOR It is widely reco…
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Using digital technology to integrate gender into genetics in small ruminant and dairy systems
06.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Julie Ojango, senior scientist in the Livestock Genetics program at the International Livestock Rese…
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Harnessing digital innovations for gender and social inclusion in Kenya and Rwanda
06.03.23-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The growth of digital technology and digital tools in agriculture in the past decade has…
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Protecting livelihoods through sustainable utilization of the Kafue river basin
18.02.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Traditional leaders in Zambia, such as chiefs, have historically been the proponents of natural reso…
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In the Spotlight: Neetha Shenoy
10.02.23-
Gender equality
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Neetha Shenoy is an aquaculture specialist at WorldFish in India, working on the CGIAR research…
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