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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
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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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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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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more
31.12.19-
Nutrition
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Researc…
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Call for abstracts now open: ANH Academy Week 2020
13.12.19-
Nutrition
The 2020 Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week will be held in Malawi from 29…
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Overlooked, underused crops: An answer to our food system problems?
09.12.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
A recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rang alarm bells about the…
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Chronic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka
05.12.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Groundwater sources and treatment practices may not be the sole risk factors, and further research…
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Overlooked, underused crops: An answer to our food system problems?
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Health
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Nutrition
Despite the existence of over 5,500 food crops globally, we are eating a smaller array…
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Leading change in nutrition: Transform Nutrition West Africa holds first Francophone ‘short course’
01.12.19-
Nutrition
An all-African team from Transform Nutrition West Africa and the African Nutrition Leadership Progra…
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AfricaRice wins prestigious Al-Sumait Prize 2019
28.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Recognizing the important role of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) in enhancing food security in…
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Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
27.11.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Foodborne disease is a significant threat to global health, and food safety is a growing…
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Nutrition Society of Nigeria annual conference: Opportunities for experience sharing across A4NH flagships, between Nigeria and Ethiopia
21.11.19-
Nutrition
The annual conference of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria held in Abuja in September 2019…
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Healthy diets feature both whole- and refined-grain foods, new study shows
20.11.19-
Nutrition
Grain-based foods — both whole-grain and refined, from which the bran has been removed —…
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Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement
20.11.19-
Nutrition
Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World…
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Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts
20.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
“Essential.” “Obvious.” “The model of the future.” Last month, when more than 1,200 scie…
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Some lessons from a life in food policy
19.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
When I was 15 years old, I learned something startling about myself. For the first…
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New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
19.11.19-
Nutrition
Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution ICRISAT’s chickpe…
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The future of livestock in the developing world: myths, complexities and trade-offs
18.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The future of livestock in the developing world was one of the principal themes at…
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How do you provide healthy, sustainable food for world of the future?
14.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, env…
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Policy seminar: What made Malawi’s community childcare centers successful platforms for an agriculture and nutrition program
13.11.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Community-based early childhood development centers have long provided affordable, quality care for …
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ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week
10.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The International Tropical Agriculture Conference, TropAg2019, is being held next week in Brisbane, …
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