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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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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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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security
13.04.20While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
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Biodiversity
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Health
While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Crossing boundaries
07.04.20Daily life as we know it has grinded to a halt and crop scientists are…
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Wheat curl mites: What are they and how can we fight them?
01.04.20The wheat curl mite, a pesky wheat pest which can cause up to 100% yield…
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ICARDA’s Mustapha El-Bouhssini explains how crop pests are moving in a warming world
26.03.20Insect resistance in plants is needed now more than ever. The UN, which has named…
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Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
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Gender equality
Women play a crucial role in Ethiopian agriculture. A significant portion of their time is…
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Whole grains
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Nutrition
The most recent dietary guidelines provided by the World Health Organization and other international…
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Breaking Ground: Aparna Das leads efficient and demand-driven maize research
25.03.20Getting a good maize harvest, or just enough to feed the family, has always been…
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Crowdsourced data feeds fall armyworm surveillance in Bangladesh
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Food security
Following the spread of fall armyworm, crowdsourced data is powering a web-based application to he…
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Systems thinking at work in South Asia’s food production
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2009, state governments in Northwest India implemented a policy designed to reduce groundwater ex…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
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Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
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Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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Back to where they came from
11.02.20-
Biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has embarked on a project to return…
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Fireflies, food and future systems – scientists share inspiration behind choosing science as a lifestyle
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Gender equality
Plant breeding, genetics, math and software development are all stereotypically male fields. For too…
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Ten new CIMMYT-developed maize varieties released in Pakistan
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Food security
Pakistan’s maize sector achieved a remarkable milestone in 2019 by releasing ten new maize varieti…
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Include small indigenous productions systems to improve rural livelihoods
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Uni…
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Conservation agriculture is helping farmers adapt to climate change: Lessons from southern Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Christian Thierfelder, senior cropping systems agronomist at the International Maize and Wheat Impro…
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