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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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Human activities are the no. 1 contributors to globalizing plant pests
30.04.20-
Health
If there is anything the deadly COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it is that diseases…
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Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
28.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY MELISSA HIDROBO, NEHA KUMAR, TIA PALERMO, AMBER PETERMAN AND SHALINI ROY The COVID-19 pandemi…
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Down to Earth: When COVID-19, climate collide: How south Asia can prepare itself
27.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Careful planning is needed to avoid major damage, while marshalling resources towards limiting the s…
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The COVID-19 nutritional crisis: What to expect and how to protect
27.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic has all the makings of a perfect storm for global malnutrition. The…
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Expert review examines impact of mycotoxins on dairy cattle health in sub-Saharan Africa
24.04.20-
Health
A new review paper published in the journal Toxins (April 2020) describes the major mycotoxins,…
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The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protect
23.04.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL Nutrition has been a development priority for a decade. Many…
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Seeds of rural recovery: States must consider accommodating returnee migrants in small-farming
23.04.20-
Food security
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Health
Small and marginal farmers remain the dominant food producer and major workforce in India, and…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19's implications for food security, nutrition, and poverty
22.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions in…
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Why gender matters in COVID-19 responses – now and in the future
22.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY AGNES QUISUMBING, NEHA KUMAR, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER Controlling the COVID-19 p…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemic
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure
20.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…
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IWMI and Covid-19
20.04.20-
Health
The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…
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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers
19.04.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…
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Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
18.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal
17.04.20-
Health
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DAVID LABORDE, WILL MARTIN AND ROB VOS As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, social and economic re…
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Produce more coarse grains to meet pandemic nutrition challenge
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the…
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