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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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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Happy New Year! Here’s a baker’s dozen of ILRI’s top livestock communications in 2019
30.12.19A baker’s dozen of our favourite communications in 2019 are listed and linked to below,…
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New study develops forecasting tools for better detection and control of dengue in Vietnam
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Health
A new article published in the journal PLOS ONE (27 Nov 2019) reports on the…
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New CGIAR ‘GENDER’ Platform and investment announced to build more inclusive agricultural benefits and greater food security in developing countries
19.12.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Nairobi, Kenya, 18 December 2019 — CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,…
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A tribute to Jean Ndikumana, a ‘gentle giant’ in African livestock research for development
13.12.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jean Ndikumana at a 2010 stakeholders meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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More vaccination, not antibiotics, needed for Kenyan livestock—Straight talk by Sidai Chair Christie Peacock
21.11.19-
Food security
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Health
The following interview of Christie Peacock was conducted at the February 2019 launch of the…
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Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement
20.11.19-
Nutrition
Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World…
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ILRI and China’s Nanjing Agricultural University commit to deepen collaboration for livestock research and capacity development
19.11.19-
Food security
Chancellor Chen Ligen of Nanjing University with ILRI director general Jimmy Smith (photo credit: IL…
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The future of livestock in the developing world: myths, complexities and trade-offs
18.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The future of livestock in the developing world was one of the principal themes at…
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Celebrating World Antibiotic Resistance Week 2019 with highlights of ILRI research on antimicrobial resistance
18.11.19-
Health
To commemorate World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2019 (18–24 November), we highlight recent research…
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New study identifies factors affecting spread of brucellosis in humans and livestock in northeastern Kenya
11.11.19-
Health
Brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease that affects wildlife and livestock. A study carried ou…
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ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week
10.11.19-
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Nutrition
The International Tropical Agriculture Conference, TropAg2019, is being held next week in Brisbane, …
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development
07.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency…
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#OneHealthDay is this Sunday: Join ILRI in collaborative work for healthier people, animals and lands
03.11.19-
Food security
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Health
A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals (photo credit:ILRI/Stevie Mann) Written by Ekta…
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Celebrating One Health Day 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s One Health research
03.11.19-
Health
One Health Day is a global campaign marked annually on 3 November to bring attention…
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
21.10.19-
Health
Open Access Week is celebrated globally every year during the last complete week of October. To…
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