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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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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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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
03.03.20-
Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
03.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
02.03.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Guardian.ng: Valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in fast-rising streams
19.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
“For countries to progress, there is a need to invest in a supportive regulatory and…
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Feeding the future: Millet and sorghum grains make big gains in Mali
14.02.20-
Health
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Nutrition
USAID delegation visited Mali to see impacts from projects undertaken by three CGIAR institutions A…
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Policy seminar: Can trade ensure food security and access to diverse and sustainable nutrition?
11.02.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The global trade conflicts of the past couple of years have created uncertainty for agriculture,…
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The world needs higher-quality diets. But is better nutrition affordable for all?
31.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Messages around healthy eating are nothing new—but nowadays we are increasingly told to eat well …
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On vegan diets and brain nutrients—some unsettling research reports in a (surprisingly) still murky research area
28.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Meat and Eggs, by Felix Vallotton, 1918 (via Wikiart). The vegan diet is low in—or,…
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A4NH researchers publish systematic literature review on indices of diet quality
26.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
A4NH researchers with Wageningen University & Research and Bioversity International conducted a …
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Critical literature review sheds light on drivers of food systems
26.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The rapid transformation of food systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, will hav…
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A4NH compiles glossary on food systems
26.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
What is a food system? How does a food system differ from a value chain?…
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As policy makers call for building capacity for food system transformation, who is listening?
21.01.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Since its emergence in the last few years as a leading paradigm, food system transformation…
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Equity in agriculture-nutrition-health research: What have we been researching and what are the gaps?
19.01.20-
Nutrition
To understand what is needed in tackling different aspects of inequity in agriculture for better…
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Industry plans to reach consumers with high oleic groundnut oil in 2-3 years
17.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
Two new groundnut varieties with more than 78% oleic acid have captured the attention of…
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The meat wars: A backlash is occurring on the backlash to meat dietary recommendations published late last year
16.01.20-
Nutrition
Roy Lichenstein, Standing Rib (via Wikiart). On 19 Nov 2019, guidelines were published in the…
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Addressing nutrition in Ethiopia: Changes, challenges and opportunities
15.01.20-
Nutrition
John McDermott, director of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, refl…
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IFPRI short video contest: School garden and healthy cooking program targets the double burden of malnutrition in Mexico
14.01.20-
Health
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Nutrition
irst in a series of guest posts by winners of IFPRI's My Food, Our Future short video…
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