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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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Model: Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
20.05.21-
Food security
BY EMILY SCHMIDT AND PAUL DOROSH In general, the COVID-19 pandemic has had only modest impacts…
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Charting a productive, sustainable future for small farms amid food system transformation
19.05.21-
Food security
BY XINSHEN DIAO,THOMAS REARDON, ADAM KENNEDY AND JESSICA WALLACH While urbanization is shrinking ru…
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Global Food and Hunger Challenges Projected to Increase Mortality, Disability by 2050
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Report…
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Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
13.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND CYNTHIA PAZ Global patterns and local variations of COVI…
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Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks
12.05.21-
Gender equality
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Health
BY JAWOO KOO, CLAUDIA RINGLER, ANIRUDDHA GHOSH AND CARLO AZZARRI India’s devastating second wave o…
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Policy responses to COVID-19: What worked and how to build resilience for the future
11.05.21-
Food security
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT, DANIELLE RESNICK, NICHOLA NAYLOR AND JESSICA WALLACH The COVID-19 pandemic has pr…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation
07.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…
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Women’s voices in civil society organizations: Evidence from a civil society mapping project in Mali
04.05.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA How can women’s voices be amplified in a situation…
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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
03.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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Can child wasting be prevented in times of crisis? Evidence from Burundi
28.04.21-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is the sixth in a series on a research project in Guatemala and Burundi…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
26.04.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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Earth Day 2021: Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
22.04.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated o…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
21.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
BY WEI ZHANG AND JESSICA WALLACH Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sus…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers rare chance for food systems transformation
21.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both th…
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Policy seminar: Food systems lessons from COVID-19
29.03.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
As COVID-19 continues to affect people around the world, an understanding of the scope of…
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