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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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-
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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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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Resilient and participatory: How Quito’s setting the standard on urban food systems
14.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Like many cities around the world, Quito, Ecuador, is confronting major challenges around providing …
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Nigerian experiences shared at milestone data forum on nutrition action in West Africa
11.05.20-
Nutrition
Together 4 Nutrition Data Forum drew diverse groups of data producers and users to address…
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COVID-19: Stakeholders count losses in Aquaculture
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised an alarm of a looming food crisis unless…
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‘Our lives depend on it’: Women’s gleaning vital for food and income in Timor-Leste
11.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s 5 am on an August morning. The tide is low at Beacou beach, where…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: India
05.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
On March 25th India initiated a strict 21-day lockdown, later extended until May 3rd and…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Bangladesh
05.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Protective measures were instated progressively from March 17th, evolving into a ten-day nationwide…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Myanmar
05.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Following first case detections at the end of March, Myanmar instituted stay-at-home orders, curfe…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Egypt
05.05.20-
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Nutrition
Egypt enacted measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the end of March including…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: Nigeria
05.05.20-
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Nutrition
More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun states were put under federal lockdown on…
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IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food system
05.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
CGIAR Research Centers commend Bangladesh’s response to contain Covid-19 spread, call for ensuring…
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Why 'home garden' projects don’t always work: Insights from Ethiopia
04.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KALLE HIRVONEN AND DEREK HEADEY In Ethiopia, the average person eats just 42 kg of fruits and…
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New protein study reveals power of millet-legume blends for enhancing human health
01.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two billion people around the world are suffering from protein and micronutrient deficiencies. The r…
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Reaching Farmers and Vulnerable Communities Amid COVID-19
28.04.20-
Nutrition
As the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it impact economies and societies around the…
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Biblical, on steroids, and across generations: The coming food and nutrition crash can be averted if we act now to counter the COVID-19 crisis
28.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally)…
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Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessment
24.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h…
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Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019
23.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON An estimated 135 million people in 55 countries around the world faced…
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