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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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Global Report on Food Crises 2021: Building resilience can prevent crisis and conflict
30.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ALEXANDRIA RICHTER More than 155 million people experienced acute food insecur…
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Rising food prices are a concern but no reason for panic yet
28.06.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SARA GUSTAFSON, JOSEPH GLAUBER,MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ, DAVID LABORDE,BRENDAN RICE AND ROB VOS Global f…
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CIP discussion: Agricultural innovation, the key for bridging R&D with impact at scale
21.06.21-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
BY CHRISTOPHER BUTLER The need to innovate in agriculture is more urgent than ever. The…
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The transformational role of science for the UN Food Systems Summit agenda
17.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY JOACHIM VON BRAUN Food systems at the global level and in many countries and…
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Nine more harvests to transform our food systems: Let’s make them count for everyone, everywhere, and for all time
14.06.21-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
BY CHRISTINE CAMPEAU, LAWRENCE HADDAD, GUNHILD STORDALEN, SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE,SALEEMUL HUQ AND …
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Smallholder and agrifood SME resilience to shocks: Lessons from COVID-19 for the UN Food System Summit
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the…
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2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies
09.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…
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Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit
08.06.21-
Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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Seven solutions to jointly improve water security and food systems outcomes
07.06.21-
Environmental health
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Health
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER ANDJENNA WILF Water is vital for all life and integral to the…
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The importance of human-centered ecological restoration
04.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY JESSICA WALLACH The launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) will…
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Challenges for policy and research to reduce food loss and waste
03.06.21-
Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Food loss and waste is a substantial global problem,…
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Book: Moving Malawi beyond subsistence agriculture
02.06.21BY TODD BENSON Most of Malawi’s 4 million households still rely primarily on rainfed crop…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: Food system transformation and the impact of COVID-19 on African economies
01.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SOKHNA SALL SECK The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on public health, economic…
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Policy-induced market distortions along agricultural value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
28.05.21-
Food security
BY GIRMA KASSIE AND SIMLA TOKGOZ In developing countries where agriculture comprises a significant p…
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Financing Sustainable Development Goal 2 and the end of hunger
27.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Food systems must function well in order to achieve the Sustainable Develop…
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How big companies can help to end hunger
26.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD AND CARIN SMALLER The number of people who go to bed hungry…
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Survey: COVID-19’s varied impacts on fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains in Senegal
25.05.21-
Food security
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Health
BY ANNA FABRY,KAAT VAN HOYWEGHEN, HENDRIK FEYAERTS,IDRISSA WADE AND MIET MAERTENS There has been muc…
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Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems: Consensus and gaps in the literature
24.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI, HAZEL MALAPIT, SARAH EISSLER AND JESSICA WALLACH A large volume of research…
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