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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: InvestigaciĂłn para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)20.05.20-
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BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)16.05.20-
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Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)15.05.20-
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As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India 
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A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)15.05.20-
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ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)15.05.20-
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BY TIMOTHY SULSER ANDÂ SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)14.05.20-
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Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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Virtual seminar: IFPRI researchers on COVID-19 emerging problems and country-level responses
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.05.20-
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BY KATARLAH TAYLOR COVID-19 is creating a range of new challenges for economic growth and…
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Integrating fish conservation with water sanitation during COVID-19 in Cambodia
WorldFish14.05.20-
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In rural Cambodia, many households are burdened with having to collect and treat their own…
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Aflatoxin biocontrol product lowers maize, groundnut contamination in Senegal
CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)12.05.20-
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Results from a new study show Aflasafe to be highly efficient at reducing aflatoxin contamination…
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Successful partnership with Odisha Government for effective agri strategy in times of COVID-19
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)08.05.20-
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Working closely with the Government of Odisha, ICRISAT has helped develop a mitigation strategy for…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)08.05.20-
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A look at how digital tools and technologies have been and could be used to…
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Double burden of COVID-19: Declining livelihood opportunities and aspiration failure among poor people
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)08.05.20-
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The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis but an economic crisis too. In…
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Let’s not forget the quality of food in crisis, millet entrepreneurs speak out
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)07.05.20-
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Pan-India survey highlights areas for government intervention A recent survey of millet entrepreneur…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
AfricaRice05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Access to improved varieties and warrantage services helps Malian farmers save for children’s schooling
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)01.05.20-
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Double yields from improved varieties, access to storage facilities and timely credit through the wa…
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Impact of COVID-19 on women working in the domestic sector in Hyderabad
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)01.05.20-
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The recently extended lockdown in India, now in force until 3 May, is a necessary…
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Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)01.05.20-
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Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not an appropriate time…
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