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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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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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The Russia-Ukraine conflict is likely to compound Sudan’s existing food security problems
06.04.22-
Food security
BY CLEMENS BREISINGER, OLIVER KIRUI, PAUL DOROSH, JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE Russia's invasion…
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West Africa faces mixed food security impacts from the Russia-Ukraine conflict
01.04.22-
Food security
Food security in West Africa has been deteriorating since 2015: The proportion of the population…
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The Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating international food price volatility
30.03.22-
Food security
The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Excessive Food Price Variability Early Warning System is showin…
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to further exacerbate the food insecurity emergency in Yemen
23.03.22-
Food security
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has roiled agricultural markets, particularly wheat, which has seen pri…
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Agricultural support: How to get incentives right for people, economies, and the planet
23.03.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY JOHANN SWINNEN AND MARTIEN VAN NIEUWKOOP Totaling more than $639 billion per year, public…
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Policy seminar: Repurposing agricultural subsidies can deliver better value for people, the planet, and the global economy
17.03.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SWATI MALHOTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 For decades, governments have provided massive support to…
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Estimating smallholder maize yields in Ethiopia with satellites and machine learning
15.03.22-
Food security
BY ZHE GUO AND BILLY BABIS Accurate and precise monitoring of agricultural output in developing…
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The Russia-Ukraine crisis poses a serious food security threat for Egypt
14.03.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has imperiled global food security—creating suffering within Ukraine …
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Overcoming the threats to global food systems from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
11.03.22-
Food security
BY CARIN SMALLER The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shocked the world, leading to terrible…
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ICTC Horizon Conference: The role of technology in building sustainability and food security
04.03.22-
Food security
BY PAUL STASTNY With global stresses rising on food and agriculture from climate change, pandemic…
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Lessons from a decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
03.03.22-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EMILY MYERS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since its launch in 2012, IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment…
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How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?
24.02.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets…
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Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India
24.02.22-
Food security
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, SAMYUKTHA KANNAN AND BERBER KRAMER Lockdowns and other social distancing meas…
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Two years on, resilience innovations help food supply chains overcome COVID-19 disruptions
23.02.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdow…
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
10.02.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
10.02.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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Feed the microbes
28.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JABOURY GHAZOUL At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 26 countries pledged to int…
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The links between food-related trade and fiscal policies and obesity rates in low- and middle-income countries
21.01.22-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KIBROM ABAY, HOSAM IBRAHIM, CLEMENS BREISINGER AND ALI ABDELHADI Global overweight and obesity ra…
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