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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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A food system integration story: Fish with roots, tubers and bananas
13.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
What do catfish and bananas have in common? No, this is not a riddle or…
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Zinc study suggests possible role for biofortification in addressing non-communicable diseases
12.08.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Laura Pompano and Erick Boy The double burden of malnutrition is a rapidly growing…
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Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet varieties
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
High-yielding chickpea and finger millet varieties with yield potential of up to 3 tons per…
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New ICRISAT groundnut varieties to be available from the next season
07.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two new groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content developed by ICRISAT in association with…
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Harvesting crop data from space to increase climate and nutrition security
04.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
As the crew of Apollo 13 famously understated when their spacecraft was shaken by an…
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2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report: Rising hunger and COVID-19 present formidable challenges
27.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Almost 690 million people went hungry around the world in 2019, an…
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Policy seminar: The impacts and legacy of IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative
27.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Khiem Nguyen Launched in 1993 and recently concluded, IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Initiative was an o…
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2020 Global Food Policy Report: Emerging challenges of building inclusive food systems in South Asia
24.07.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
By Rebika Laishram In South Asia, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the largest disruption of…
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Better dietary options for healthier children
23.07.20-
Health
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Nutrition
In rural Malawi, over 16,000 people, including young children, have benefited from ‘Care Groups’…
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Policy options to improve access to quality seed in Vietnam
22.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new paper examines Vietnam’s regulatory regime surrounding planting material of vegetatively pro…
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Indian diets fall short of EAT-Lancet reference recommendations for human and planetary health
21.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Manika Sharma, Avinash Kishore, Devesh Roy, Kuhu Joshi, and Khiem Nguyen Many developing countrie…
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New groundnut variety with high oil, high pod yields released in central India
20.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Photo: Dr Shrikant L Sawargonkar, IGKV, observing state multilocation trials in Raipur (2019). ICRIS…
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Policy seminar: No backsliding – reorienting food and health systems to protect nutrition in a global pandemic
17.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Janet Hodur The COVID-19 pandemic—and the resulting economic crisis and disrupted food and heal…
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Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive, resilient and safe future
13.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
COVID-19 has brought the world to a grinding halt. Alarmingly, this includes severe impact on…
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Taking technology to farmer collectives in India, the startup way
10.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Eight ICRISAT-incubated startups recently showcased their technologies to support farm livelihoods a…
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New chickpea varieties on the way
10.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Three new improved varieties of chickpea – adapted to local conditions – have been identified…
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Catch-up growth cannot undo damage from undernutrition
10.07.20-
Nutrition
By Jef L. Leroy, Edward A. Frongillo, Pragya Dewan, Maureen M. Black, and Robert A.…
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