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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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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
18.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
17.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Genebanks - Leveraging Crop Diversity to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Nutritious
16.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Marcela Santaella’s highest priority is making sure that storage conditions are perfect at all tim…
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Rice-fish systems - back to the future
13.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
12.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Back to the future with rice-fish agroecosystems
09.11.20-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Important research on how integrated rice-fish production can improve food security and climate resi…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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New research in Vietnam shows holistic approach to school-based interventions required to promote healthy eating among children
04.11.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A new research study by scientists from Vietnam's National Institute of Nutrition and the CGIAR…
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Farming Families Worldwide Are Increasingly Growing More Than One Biofortified Crop
02.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The global nutrition community, increasingly focused on holistic approaches to improving diets, is p…
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Aflatoxin rapid detection technology wins Big Data Inspire Challenge 2020
30.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A little box that can predict the amount of harmful aflatoxin contained in a handful…
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How to ensure access to healthy diets for all: a clarion call for One CGIAR
30.10.20-
Nutrition
Guest blog by Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) At …
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Growing cities, growing food insecurity: How to protect the poor during rapid urbanization
29.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL The 2020 State of Food and Nutrition Security in the World (SOFI) estimates that…
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Behavior change communication in conflict zones: Program leads to improved breastfeeding and water treatment practices in Yemen
27.10.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY SIKANDRA KURDI AND SARAH EDWARDS In the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, a child…
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Can citizen science help to fill hydrology data gaps in Ethiopia?
27.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IWMI conducted a qualitative study to investigate the possibilities of embedding a citizen science a…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving household food security and diet quality in Burundi
26.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
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-
Health
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Nutrition
Enthused by positive nutritional outcomes among children and women in its first phase, activities of…
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