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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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IRRI, AFSTRI, Corteva Agriscience™ team up to build capacity and network of young plant scientists
22.08.18-
Food security
IRRI and Corteva Agriscience™ partners in building a strong global community of scientists which w…
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Assam farmers learn about technologies that increase yield and improve rice farming efficiency
22.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agriculture in Assam accounts for over a third of income generated in the state, and…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
21.08.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
GENNOVATE is a global comparative research initiative that uses qualitative methods to address how g…
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High-level Smart Food pitch at Crawford Fund Conference in Australia’s Parliament House
17.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Australian Foreign Minister calls it an ‘exciting breakthrough’ Can we change global diets so th…
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National Planning Commission and IRRI-Nepal hold round table meeting to discuss five-year work plan on the country’s rice agri-food system
16.08.18-
Food security
For more than 50 years, IRRI has been working with Nepal in providing improved germplasm…
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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
15.08.18-
Food security
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Health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO AND SARA GUSTAFSON The countries that make up the G20 account for around…
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IRRI celebrates National Nutrition Month in the Philippines
15.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Nutrition awareness ramps up in the Philippines during the annual celebration of National Nutrition …
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Trade conflict is a lose-lose game
14.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN After many years of rapid growth, serious trade tensions have emerged between…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Pathways from Agricultural Research to Poverty Reduction: A Bigger Set of ‘Food Systems’ Thinking is Required
14.08.18-
Food security
In this interview, Tom Tomich, ex-ISPC member and Professor and Director, Agricultural Sustainabilit…
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Nepal to adopt intensive rice farming technologies to achieve food security
13.08.18-
Food security
As part of his South Asia travel, IRRI’s Director General Matthew Morell had the opportunity…
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An app to help African rice farmers beat weeds
13.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AfricaRice recently launched a powerful decision-support tool, called RiceAdvice-WeedManager, to hel…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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Talking nutrition with adolescents in tribal regions of Telangana
09.08.18-
Nutrition
On World Tribal Day (August 9), we examine the importance of nutrition messaging in staving…
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When saying 'see, it works!' isn’t enough: Sharing results from an evaluation of video-mediated extension in Ethiopia
08.08.18-
Food security
BY DAVID J. SPIELMAN, SIMRIN MAKHIJA, GASHAW T. ABATE AND TANGUY BERNARD For many researchers at …
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A4NH and partners convene ANH Academy Week 2018 in Ghana
08.08.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Over 350 scientists from 50 countries met in Accra, Ghana on 25–29 June 2018 to…
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What do equity and equality have to do with it? Insights for food and nutrition from development studies research
07.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Equity and equality are important themes in food and nutrition, but the existing literature has…
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How and why iron-biofortified pearl millet improves cognitive function: A look inside a new study
07.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT “The human mind is our fundamental resource.” – John F. Kennedy, 1961…
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