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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-
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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New study examines socio-economic effects of training informal milk vendors in Kenya
12.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Training of milk vendors in Kenya’s informal dairy sector could be a pathway to progressively…
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Squaring the meat vs veganism circle
06.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Kiss, drawing by Pablo Picasso. Bull, Plate VIII, Pablo Picasso, 1946. . .…
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German agroecological livestock research investments are benefiting both people and the planet
06.09.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
(Left) ILRI Deputy Director General for Biosciences Dieter Schillinger welcomes to ILRI Parliamentar…
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Deadly African swine fever arrives in China, the world’s largest producer of pigs
14.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa swine fever, which recently appeared in Shenyang City, in Liaoning Province, northeastern Chi…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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When ‘Do no harm’ is harder than ‘doing good’
07.08.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
This drawing depicts a traditional ololili dry-season forage reserve maintained by Tanzania’s pas…
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One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder dairying in Kenya (photo credit: Accelerated Value Chain Development/Sophie Mbugua). ‘…
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Enhancing global livestock advocacy for sustainable development
02.08.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Some of the work going on at an end-of-project GLAD workshop held last week at…
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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda
25.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock is the world’s fastest-growing, highest-value agricultural subsector, accounting for abo…
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DNA sequencing of indigenous African cattle reveals vital clues to increasing productivity
19.07.18-
Biodiversity
Since their introduction to Africa thousands of years ago from the Middle East and the…
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Sustained progress made in global work to reduce the rise of antimicrobial resistance—but major gaps remain
19.07.18-
Food security
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Health
Training on standardized and harmonized surveillance methods for antimicrobial resistance in food an…
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Science helps tailor livestock-related climate change mitigation strategies in Africa
17.07.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Livestock contribute greatly to livelihoods and food security in Africa, yet they are both vulnerabl…
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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
13.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…
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Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia
11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
10.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
06.07.18-
Food security
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Health
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
04.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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