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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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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development
07.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency…
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2019 CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference: Promoting a quality-driven food system in China
04.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over the past seven decades, agricultural production has grown fast in China. According to a white…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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IMMANA announces research grant call for applications
29.10.19-
Nutrition
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) program has announ…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
16.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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CGIAR centers push recommendations for CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Nutrition and Diets
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Placing the Global South front and center Among the critical conversations had at the recently…
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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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Sustainable livestock systems for sustainable lives
08.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Paul Cezanne, Still Life with Bread and Eggs. This month, in a new issue of…
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Confused about the meat/milk/diet wars? That’s OK. It’s complicated. And poorly fact-checked. And under-studied.
07.10.19-
Nutrition
All illustrations by Japanese graphic artist Zenji Funabashi. Just in time to add fuel to…
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India establishes separate ministerial livestock portfolio, a sector outperforming crop agriculture
05.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
All illustrations by Bengali artist Jamini Roy, 1887–1972. ‘The creation of a separate ministeri…
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Incorporating prevention into community-based management of acute malnutrition: Insights from Mali and Burkina Faso
04.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Globally, 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. Children with moderate acute malnutrit…
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