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      Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders ListWorldFish19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now… Read more
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      IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systemsInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o… Read more
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      CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialoguesMultifunctional Landscapes Science Program09.07.25- 
            
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 CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an… Read more
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      World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsCGIAR29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi… Read more
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      Food Policy Priorities for A Changing WorldInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities… Read more
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      Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstructionInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in… Read more
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      Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: MyanmarWorldFish05.05.20- 
            
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 Following first case detections at the end of March, Myanmar instituted stay-at-home orders, curfe… Read more
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      Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: EgyptWorldFish05.05.20- 
            
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 Egypt enacted measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the end of March including… Read more
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      Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 Updates: NigeriaWorldFish05.05.20- 
            
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 More than 25 million residents in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun states were put under federal lockdown on… Read more
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      IFPRI, IRRI, CIMMYT, WorldFish make joint call for measures to avert risk to food systemWorldFish05.05.20- 
            
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 CGIAR Research Centers commend Bangladesh’s response to contain Covid-19 spread, call for ensuring… Read more
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      Why 'home garden' projects don’t always work: Insights from EthiopiaInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)04.05.20- 
            
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 BY KALLE HIRVONEN AND DEREK HEADEY In Ethiopia, the average person eats just 42 kg of fruits and… Read more
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      New protein study reveals power of millet-legume blends for enhancing human healthInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)01.05.20- 
            
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 Two billion people around the world are suffering from protein and micronutrient deficiencies. The r… Read more
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      Reaching Farmers and Vulnerable Communities Amid COVID-19HarvestPlus28.04.20- 
            
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 As the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to contain it impact economies and societies around the… Read more
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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 crisisInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)28.04.20- 
            
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 BY LAWRENCE HADDAD “Biblical.” That was the word that the world’s press needed to (finally)… Read more
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      Integrating gender and nutrition in Ugandan policy: An assessmentCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)24.04.20- 
            
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 Most of Uganda’s population relies on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. Agriculture is h… Read more
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      Global Report on Food Crises: 135 million in 55 countries faced acute hunger in 2019International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)23.04.20- 
            
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 BY SARA GUSTAFSON An estimated 135 million people in 55 countries around the world faced… Read more
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      The COVID-19 nutrition crisis: What to expect and how to protectInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)23.04.20- 
            
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 BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL Nutrition has been a development priority for a decade. Many… Read more
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      Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in SahelHarvestPlus21.04.20- 
            
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 Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and… Read more
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      Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systemsThe Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)21.04.20- 
            
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 To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The… Read more
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      Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisisCGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)17.04.20- 
            
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 India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of… Read more
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      Domestic livestock not a source of the COVID-19 disease—ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Eric FevreInternational Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)15.04.20- 
            
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 A cattle keeper in Laos gives her cow salt (photo credit: ILRI Stevie Mann). ‘People… Read more
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      Viewing food system transformation through the country lensInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)14.04.20- 
            
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 BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post also appears on A4NH’s Food System Idea Exchange, a new blog series… Read more
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      Averting an agricultural crisis: Setting Food And Nutrition Systems right during Covid-19 timesInternational Rice Research Institute (IRRI)14.04.20- 
            
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 by Nafees Meah, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil and Basanta Kumar Kar (Recipient of Global Nutrition Le… Read more
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      Colombian Farmers Donate Zinc Rice to Coronavirus-Stricken CartagenaHarvestPlus09.04.20- 
            
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 "One by one we are all mortal. Together, we are eternal." These words of solidarity,… Read more
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