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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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Policy seminar: Micronutrients in emergencies – how can we prevent an increase in hidden hunger?
22.06.20-
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Nutrition
By Aynsley Morris The COVID-19 pandemic and associated business shutdowns and other control measures…
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Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: Realismo sin magia
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
By Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla El día 2 de junio, el programa de Latinoamérica y el Caribe…
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Food systems need urgent overhaul to combat desertification
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Scientists, policymakers, farmers and consumers all need to collaborate to mainstream nutritious and…
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Social safety nets are crucial to the COVID-19 response. Some lessons to boost their effectiveness.
18.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Daniel Gilligan The poor and other vulnerable groups are suffering the most negative consequences…
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Working across institutions and disciplines for science-based responses to fight COVID-19 in Ethiopia
18.06.20-
Health
Ethiopia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 13, 2020 and the disease has…
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Policy Brief: Safeguarding Food Systems in Southeast Asia Amid COVID-19
16.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Since it was declared a pandemic by WHO on 11 March, COVID-19 has affected nearly…
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COVID-19 offers opportunity for India’s food systems to deliver on food safety and health
16.06.20-
Health
India can reap significant public health and economic benefits from a sustained effort to combat…
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Integrating nutrition and physical activity promotion: Exploring new ‘double duty’ options
15.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
With growing evidence linking obesity and COVID-related deaths, associations between access to healt…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19. Impacts on aquaculture and fisheries
15.06.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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Implementing nutrition-sensitive pond polyculture in Zambia: WorldFish teams up with Peace Corps volunteers
13.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
We sat down with Taryn Cadena and Katharine (Katie) Thomas, two young women who were…
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The response from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT to the COVID-19 crisis in Asia
11.06.20-
Health
COVID-19 emphasized the need for more resilient and healthy food systems. In Asia, we are…
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COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
11.06.20-
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Photo: COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multif…
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Trust in science and in government plays a crucial role in COVID-19 response
10.06.20-
Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK Control of epidemic diseases relies on public compliance with government decisio…
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Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 the recipe for a cascading disaster
10.06.20-
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Health
In the immediate aftermath of Amphan, access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19 and food security implications
09.06.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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Ensia: COVID-19 is telling us that it’s time for global systems change – starting with water
08.06.20-
Health
COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized…
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IFPRI: Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
08.06.20-
Health
Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, w…
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How dryland crops are helping Telangana’s tribal households meet nutritional requirements during lockdown
08.06.20-
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Nutrition
To ensure nutrition sufficiency in children, pregnant women and lactating mothers of tribal communit…
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