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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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Beyond breeding: the potential of improved postharvest storage techniques for smallholder farmers
23.10.20-
Food security
In the early days of organizations like the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMY…
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Somalia agriculture partners learn about integrated fall armyworm control practices
21.10.20-
Food security
Fall armyworm continues to cause havoc in Africa. Farmers in Somalia have not been spared…
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Disinfecting equipment keeps agricultural production running in Bangladesh
20.10.20As with other industries in the country, most light engineering workshops in Bangladesh closed at…
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AgriFoodTrust platform gains momentum in quest for more inclusive, transparent agriculture
19.10.20-
Big data
The AgriFoodTrust platform is gaining traction in its quest to bring inclusive and usable trust an…
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What is sustainable intensification?
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By 2050, the world’s population could grow to 9.7 billion, food demand is expected to…
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Breaking Ground: Isaiah Nyagumbo advances climate-smart technologies to improve smallholder farming systems
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Most small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa rely on rain-fed agriculture to sufficiently feed their fam…
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Against the grain: New paper reveals the overlooked health benefits of maize and wheat
12.10.20-
Nutrition
Cereal crops like maize and wheat deserve greater consideration as part of a healthy, nutritious…
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In case of fall armyworm, watch this video
12.10.20-
Food security
To the first-time observer, the aftermath of a fall armyworm infestation must be terrifying. The…
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Empowered rural women take on entrepreneurship
09.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The COVID-19 lockdown has been hard on people across India, but particularly agonizing for families…
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Honoring the life and legacy of Donald Winkelmann
09.10.20With sorrow we report the passing of Donald Winkelmann, who served as Director General of…
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En route to improved agronomic literacy
08.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the years of the Nepal's civil war, women in rural villages like Masuriya faced…
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Q&A: How blockchain can create social and environmental impacts
08.10.20-
Big data
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Food security
Blockchain promises to revolutionize the economic system by changing the way we communicate over the…
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Women find a role in Bangladesh’s agricultural mechanization sector
07.10.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
t is a general perception, globally and in Bangladesh, that women do not have a…
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Scientists find genomic regions associated with wheat blast resistance in CIMMYT nurseries
05.10.20In an article published in Nature Scientific Reports, a team of scientists led by wheat…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: What is conservation agriculture?
01.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers worldwide are increasingly adopting conservation agriculture. In the 2015/2016 season, conse…
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Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa
29.09.20-
Food security
Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time…
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CIMMYT and IITA collaborate to increase adoption of conservation agriculture in southern Africa
21.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the International Maize and Wheat Imp…
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Bihar State in India to Promote Biofortified Crops to Address Nutrition Security
17.09.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Government of Bihar, India’s third most populous state, is making a major commitment to…
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