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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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Food and agriculture at a crossroads
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Food security
Over the past century, enormous progress has been made in improving human welfare worldwide, thanks…
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Working with universities in developing countries
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Food security
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Nutrition
“ The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role.” In this video interview, Nighisty…
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Publication showcases 50 years of IITA’s plant health research
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Health
A new book, titled “Critical issues in plant health: 50 years of research in African…
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State capacity and agricultural service provision: The case of rural Nepal
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers. …
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Repairing food systems failures: Policies, innovations and partnerships
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Food security
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Nutrition
The current food system is failing us. We need to develop a more integrated systems perspective…
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Acceleration through collaboration: IFPRI side event at Davos 2019
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Nutrition
To accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition, we must work together with all key…
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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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STAARS fellowship accepting applications for 2019
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program m…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A new report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Clim…
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Lessons from IFPRI country programs on influencing policy decisions and strengthening capacity
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Food security
It is often argued that the more researchers engage with policymakers, the more likely that…
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Climate change policy must distinguish (long-lived) carbon dioxide from (short-lived) methane–Oxford study
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Environmental health
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Food security
Left to right: Auto rickshaw by eCSSpert, Untitled (Plate with Knife and Fork) by Klaas…
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Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry: impact on ASEAN
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and…
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Call for nominees for the 2019 Maize Youth Innovators Awards – Africa
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Food security
Nominations are now open for the 2019 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Africa! These awards…
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Unlocking the potential of genomics to accelerate sustainable development
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Health
Countries around the world came together at the 1996 World Food Summit to commit to…
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sehgal Foundation is aligning some big initiatives with the Smart Food Endowment Fund to help crea…
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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
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Food security
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Nutrition
Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet…
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