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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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Food export restrictions have eased as the Russia-Ukraine war continues, but concerns remain for key commodities
23.01.23-
Food security
by Joseph Glauber, David Laborde and Abdullah Mamun OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In the weeks followin…
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2022 Forman Lecture: The AU’s Minata Samaté Cessouma on Africa’s current and future nutrition challenges
19.01.23-
Food security
In an era of global uncertainties, including high food prices, political instability, and growing cl…
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Can videos overcome smallholder women’s barriers to accessing climate resilience strategies? Insights from Uganda
13.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
Uganda's National Agriculture and Advisory Services (NAADS) has made great contributions to the tran…
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Policy seminar: The harmful environment impacts of agricultural subsidies and prospects for reform
06.01.23-
Food security
Globally, agricultural support is high—totaling about $600 billion annually—and continues to inc…
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Developing and implementing Picture-Based Advisories (PBA) for farmers in Kenya
31.12.22-
Food security
IFPRI’s picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative, recognized as a CGIAR@50 Innovation and acti…
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WEAGov: A new conceptual framework to assess women’s empowerment in agricultural governance
30.12.22-
Food security
Global progress on advancing women’s empowerment within governance systems has been uneven, even a…
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Food price shocks and diets among poor households in Egypt
29.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Because of its dependence on food imports, Egypt is particularly vulnerable to the high world…
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In Tajikistan, women contribute significantly to agriculture, but does agricultural work contribute significantly to women’s agency?
23.12.22-
Food security
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tajikistan is among the lowest-income countries in Central Asia and the world, and agriculture plays…
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Policy seminar: Leveraging Kenya’s new Bottom-Up Economic Plan for food system transformation
21.12.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kenya’s new government has developed an ambitious Bottom-Up Economic Plan to tackle complex dome…
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Improving agricultural value chain coordination and gender inclusiveness in Papua New Guinea
20.12.22Improving agricultural value chain coordination and gender inclusiveness in Papua New Guinea by Luci…
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CGIAR One Health Initiative seeks to improve meat hygiene in slaughterhouses in Western Kenya
18.12.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
A large share of foodborne illness is due to contamination of animal-source foods with pathogens.…
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CGIAR One Health Initiative pilot project seeks to improve food safety in Vietnam's traditional markets
18.12.22-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
In Vietnam, pork is the most widely consumed meat and over 90% of this is…
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The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis: New evidence from 1.27 million young children on the effects of inflation
14.12.22-
Food security
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century,…
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Photo essay: Talking to farmers in Malawi to understand how to improve agricultural cooperative performance
08.12.22View Photo Essay…
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Unleashing the power of young agripreneurs
06.12.22Encouraging agripreneurship—entrepreneurial activity in agriculture—is crucial to addressing une…
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Vilsack highlights USDA’s climate initiatives and investments at COP27 (Farmers Advance)
01.12.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Vilsack highlights USDA’s climate initiatives and investments at COP27 (Farmers Advance) Farmers…
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How mobile technologies are reducing gender inequities in Tanzania’s agrifood system
29.11.22-
Gender equality
Precision agriculture technology and digital services are rapidly changing food systems around the w…
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Addressing the food crisis in Yemen: The private sector’s key role amid local conflict and global market disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine war
21.11.22-
Food security
The Yemen conflict, underway since early 2015, has led to an ongoing, unprecedented humanitarian em…
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