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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
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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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Should we eat red meat? Depends on who’s eating—New York Times
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Left to right: Figure of an under-nourished individual (by The Twin Project), illustration of red…
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African livestock: A terrible thing to waste
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Six Buck, lino print by San/Bushman artist Flai Shipipa via Pinterest. Care about ‘sustainable agr…
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Livestock and trees: A more perfect union
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Illustration by Remy Charlip via Pinterest: Cover of Four Fur Feet, written by Margaret Wise Brown.…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
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As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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Jimmy Smith receives honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Jimmy Smith, director general of ILRI, received a doctorate with honoris causa and gave the commenc…
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Lancet Countdown 2018 report shows concerning trends in heat and heat waves, infectious disease and declining food security
29.11.18-
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The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is a multidisciplinary, interna…
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This week: A global event on Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
26.11.18-
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This week 28–30 Nov 2018 in Bangkok A senior delegation from the International Livestock Research…
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Ten Questions & Answers about ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
20.11.18-
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In late 2017, several illegal attempts were made to sell parcels of land at Kapiti…
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
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Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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A new project promises to generate better dietary and health data for agriculture and nutrition interventions in Africa
15.11.18-
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Despite significant efforts to address it, malnutrition remains a major impediment to development ar…
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A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition
15.11.18-
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Derek Headey, a senior research fellow at the CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute…
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Why cows are getting a bad rap in lab-grown meat debate
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A small-scale production line of the leghemoglobin for a plant-based hamburger is displayed during a…
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
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Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit:Â BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).Â…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
28.10.18-
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The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
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AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
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A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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Leading female rice scientists, young researchers recognized for solutions to global food and nutrition security
17.10.18-
Food security
17 October 2018, Singapore—Female scientists and early career researchers were among the seven tra…
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World Food Day in Ethiopia: Achieving food and nutritional security—and better lives—through livestock
17.10.18-
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Siboniso (‘Boni’) Moyo (front, left), the ILRI director general’s representative in Ethiopia, …
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