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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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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
28.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
26.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?
26.06.18-
Food security
Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flin…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
25.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
25.06.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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A better way for vegans, vegetarians, meat eaters and livestock herders alike—By ecologist Ian Scoones
22.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Goat herds returning home at sunset in Namunyak Conservancy of the Northern Rangelands Trust. Kenya…
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Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries
19.06.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat,…
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How closing livestock yield gaps can enhance incomes, food security and the environment in Ethiopia and India
06.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Understanding livestock yield gaps for poverty alleviation, food security and the environment is a r…
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New report: The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life
04.06.18-
Nutrition
This new research report synthesizes the best current evidence on the influence of livestock-derived…
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Africa RISING looks back at what the project achieved in ‘intensifying’ agriculture in its first five years
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa RISING is implementing activities with youthful farmers in Bababti District, northern Tanzani…
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ILRI and its partners celebrate World Milk Day at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo and Milk Week
02.06.18-
Health
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Nutrition
“World Milk Day 2018 celebrated at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo”https://t.co/hLL2FksULb —…
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‘Is my food safe?’ – the state of current research on food safety
25.05.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Image: Pork on sale in a local wet market in Hanoi, Vietnam (photo credit: ILRI/Andrew…
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Art underlines the precious value of poultry genetic research
08.05.18-
Biodiversity
Art combines with science to bring the message of the capacity of the new Incubated…
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Kenyan President Kenyatta headlines conference at ILRI Nairobi on innovations in Kenya’s agricultural sector
02.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the 400 guests at the national conference of the Feed…
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Graça Machel wins this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development
02.05.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Graça Machel, winner of this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development (photo credit: World P…
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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD Conference Highlights
30.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and h…
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