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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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Study: Feeling relatively poor increases support for women in the workplace – but men still don’t want them making household decisions
01.02.21-
Gender equality
Feeling poor relative to others can spur families to support women in pursuing work outside…
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Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity
28.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KIBROM A. ABAY, GUUSH BERHANE, JOHN HODDINOTT AND KIBROM TAFERE Multiple studies have documented…
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Policy seminar: Tackling the double burden of malnutrition with double-duty actions
27.01.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The double burden of malnutrition—the combination of undernutrition (stunting, wasting, and micron…
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Book: Global perspectives on agricultural development
26.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY KEIJIRO OTSUKA AND SHENGGEN FAN While agricultural development has long been linked to increased…
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WEF event: Building gender equitable food systems
13.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
By SOKHNA SALL SECK Empowering women and girls and the recognition and respect of their…
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Forman Lecture: Ellen Piwoz’s playbook for the future of global nutrition
12.01.21-
Health
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Nutrition
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN When Ellen Piwoz joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007, th…
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Agricultural value chain finance can help drive Myanmar’s agricultural growth
11.01.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SIDDHARTHA BASU, ALAN DE BRAUW, KHIN PWINT OO AND RUSSELL TOTH Surrounded by some…
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New India National Family Health Survey data shows worrying trends on anemia, overweight
08.01.21-
Health
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Nutrition
Children's heights are a bellwether indicator for all the things that can go wrong, or…
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Big costs, bigger rewards: How $33 billion in spending each year can help end hunger sustainably by 2030
07.01.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA The Ceres2030 project has shown the urgent need for additional investments—a…
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Policy seminar: Prospects for the African Continental Free Trade Area
05.01.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF On Jan. 1, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) formally took…
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Policy seminar: The hidden world of informal African trade
04.01.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF Millions of people in Africa rely on informal trade for their livelihoods.…
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Policy seminar: Expanding policy research to strengthen Eurasia’s food systems
29.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Along with other regions of the world, Eurasia has been hit hard…
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Policy seminar: Promoting recovery and resilience for Latin America’s agrifood industry
22.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY ADRIANA CAMPOS, JONATHAN HEPBURN AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO The COVID-19 pandemic has presented serious…
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Does response fatigue bias our understanding of rural livelihoods against women and youth?
18.12.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY KATE AMBLER, SYLVAN HERSKOWITZ AND MYWISH MAREDIA A recent policy focus on work opportunities…
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Book launch: Prospects for Nepal’s agricultural transformation
17.12.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY REBIKA LAISHRAM Agriculture is a vital sector of Nepal’s economy, contributing about 29% to…
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Policy seminar: Information and collaboration both key to preventing food crises
11.12.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SARA GUSTAFSON From the COVID-19 pandemic to persistent conflict to desert locust outbreaks, popu…
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How to support students and the learning process during India’s COVID-19 school closures
09.12.20-
Gender equality
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Health
The long-term social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unknown, but many worry…
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Using coffee ceremonies to address intimate partner violence in Ethiopia: Evidence from Unite for a Better Life
08.12.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY VANDANA SHARMA, NEGUSSIE DEYESSA, JESSICA LEIGHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Intimate partner violence (IP…
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