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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-
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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All hat and no cattle? Accountability following the UN Food Systems Summit
31.08.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY NAMUKOLO COVIC, ACHIM DOBERMANN,JESSICA FANZO, SPENCER HENSON, MARIO HERRERO,PRABHU PINGALI AND S…
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Extraordinary COVID-19 social support programs in South Africa yield economic benefits during the pandemic period
30.08.21BY SHERWIN GABRIEL, DIRK VAN SEVENTER, CHANNING ARNDT, ROBERT J. DAVIES, LAURENCE HARRIS, SHERM…
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An integrated approach to realize multiple benefits across water, energy, food, forests and biodiversity
23.08.21-
Environmental health
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Health
BY STEFAN UHLENBROOK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER As we mark World Water Week, water, land, energy, forest,…
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2021 Global Food Policy Report: COVID-19’s impact on agriculture and food systems in South Asia
17.08.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY ANISHA MOHAN The severe health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted…
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$15.2 billion in research and innovation investments can put global climate and hunger goals within reach
16.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY UMA LELE AND MARK ROSEGRANT Increasing public and private investment in agricultural research and…
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School feeding programs improve nutrition and child growth across generations: Evidence from India
12.08.21-
Health
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Nutrition
BY SUMAN CHAKRABARTI, SAMUEL SCOTT, HAROLD ALDERMAN, PURNIMA MENON AND DANIEL GILLIGAN By April 2020…
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G20 Matera Declaration calls for investing more and better in food systems to achieve Zero Hunger
10.08.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Global hunger has been on the rise since 2014,…
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The devolution revolution paradox: Greater accountability, lower spending on agricultural services
05.08.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DANIELLE RESNICK On July 28, local governments were given center stage at the United…
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COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria
05.08.21-
Food security
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Health
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, MULUBRHAN AMARE, LUCA TIBERTI,KWAW S. ANDAM AND MICHAEL WANG COVID-19 has…
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To build food security, reduce plastic use
02.08.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JULIE KURTZ AND DREW SAMPLE Our food system has a plastic problem. Macro- and…
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Bold actions for gender equality and women’s empowerment in food systems
28.07.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Somewhere in rural South Asia, a very enterprising woman toils for about…
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T20 Climate Forum: The post-pandemic future of food
21.07.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY SWATI MALHOTRA On top of climate-driven shocks, conflicts, and economic stresses, the COVID-19 pa…
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Mapping evidence of food system transformation for healthier diets: What works?
20.07.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY ELS LECOUTERE,MARRIT VAN DEN BERG AND ALAN DE BRAUW Effective food systems innovations—defined …
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Improving food donation policies is key to fighting food waste
16.07.21-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EMILY BROAD LEIB AND DOUG O'BRIEN As much as one third of all food produced is…
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UNFSS Science Days: Groundwater can play a key role in transforming Africa’s food systems
14.07.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pi…
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UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation
13.07.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Repor…
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UNFSS Science Days: Promise of the commons for sustainable and equitable food systems
13.07.21-
Environmental health
BY HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The commons (natural resources held and used collectively) sup…
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Time-use agency: A new measure of women’s empowerment
02.07.21-
Gender equality
BY SARAH EISSLER, JESSICA HECKERT,EMILY MYERS, GREG SEYMOUR, SHEELA SINHAROY, KATHRYN M. YOUNT AND J…
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