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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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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
14.01.22-
Health
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA As many developing countries face enormous…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
11.01.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia: Promoting sustainable and resilient agriculture intensification through regional cooperation
06.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY ANISHA MOHAN South Asia is one of the regions of the world most vulnerable…
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A tribute to the late Dr. Ferew Lemma
04.01.22-
Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD, TON HAVERKORT AND NAMUKOLO COVIC Over the holiday period the nutrition community…
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Dietary diversity among men and women in rural Sri Lanka
31.12.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY DEANNA OLNEY,BESS CASWELL, RENUKA SILVA AND MALIKA FERNANDO Poor quality diets are the leading…
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A brighter future: The relationships between cash transfers, mental health, and investments
30.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA AND SHALINI ROY Mental ill-health is a significant disease …
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A behavioral perspective on improving water governance in India
29.12.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS FALK, DENNIS SCHÜPF,WEI ZHANG AND ILKHOM SOLIEV India is globally the largest groundwater…
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IFPRI book: Improving African agricultural value chains to boost production
23.12.21-
Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA, ALAN DE BRAUW, ERWIN BULTE AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA The agricultural productiv…
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Cash transfers and women’s decision-making in Egypt: Still a man’s world
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY HODA EL-ENBABY, DANIEL O. GILLIGAN, NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA, YUMNA KASSIM AND SIKANDRA KURDI …
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Interventions for women’s empowerment and repercussions for family welfare: Evidence from Uganda
21.12.21-
Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, KELLY JONES AND MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN Empowering women is a goal of many development …
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Policy seminar: Prospects for reforming agricultural support as WTO MC12 approaches
16.12.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade of food and farm products, and…
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COVID-19 school closures and adolescent mental health: Evidence from Mozambique
15.12.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JESSICA LEIGHT AND NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to…
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Clarifying some of the confusion about climate finance in COP26
13.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Article 2 of the Paris Climate Agreement sets out the principal goals of …
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Aspirations and women's empowerment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
09.12.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO Do ambitious women tend to be more empowered in…
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Transforming Nigeria’s agrifood system for healthier diets and higher farm incomes
01.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY OLIVIER ECKER, TRACY BROWN AND KWAW S. ANDAM Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country,…
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Disparate health and nutrition impacts of income shocks across different household members: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
30.11.21-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting poor and vulnerable countries …
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The role of agriculture and food systems in achieving net zero global GHG emissions
24.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
BY CHANNING ARNDT The recently concluded COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow had a clear topline…
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Unpacking the effects of a complex intervention on women’s poultry production: Evidence from Burkina Faso
23.11.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JESSICA LEIGHT, JESSICA HECKERT AND AULO GELLI Integrated interventions aimed at improving both l…
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