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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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New study examines drivers of bovine tuberculosis in smallholder peri-urban dairy farms in India
08.04.19-
Health
A new study published in BMC Public Health (March 2019) examines the community, system and…
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Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies
08.04.19-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow…
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Statement of condolence on the loss of Kodjo Glato, a fine young agricultural scientist from Togo
12.03.19-
Biodiversity
Kodjo Glato was one of 157 passengers and crew who tragically perished in the crash…
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The ascent of women: A replay of a few of our favourite feminist pieces
08.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Left to right: Albrecht Dürer, Studies on the Proportions of the Female Body, 1528; Franz…
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Take a look at some of ILRI’s WILD women (aka ‘Women in Livestock Development’)
08.03.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Friday, March 8, 2019 Check out ILRI’s WILD— Women in Livestock Development— by clicking open…
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Livestock’s future: An opportunity not a threat
27.02.19-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future initiative published a white paper prepared by ILRI…
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Livestock’s future: An opportunity not a threat
26.02.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future initiative published a white paper prepared by the…
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Launching today—CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Launching today in Kenya is a CGIAR AMR Hub for powering global, national and local…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
15.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
14.02.19-
Food security
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Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
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New report says investments in food safety in sub-Saharan Africa should prioritize the needs of local consumers
07.02.19-
Health
Donor investment in food safety in sub-Saharan Africa should have greater focus on the needs…
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Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
05.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
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Climate change policy must distinguish (long-lived) carbon dioxide from (short-lived) methane–Oxford study
29.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Left to right: Auto rickshaw by eCSSpert, Untitled (Plate with Knife and Fork) by Klaas…
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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
28.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health dietâ…
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
26.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Illustrations by (left to right): Hiroko Yoshimoto, Ranganath Krishnamani, Yusuke Yonezu III. The …
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With huge variations in meat consumption, we’re ‘all in this existential crisis together’—Vox
25.01.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
‘Eating more plant-based burgers could help us avoid environmental catastrophe, according to a new…
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