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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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Coherence or cross-purposes? Building national coalitions for transformative evidence-based policies
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Nutrition, health & food security
Despite well-intentioned policies and economic growth over the last decade, major inequalities persi…
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Ready? Set? Transform! How to make gender equality last
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Gender equality
This post was first published as part of GFAR's partners in action campaign. -- The…
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Lessons from a decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EMILY MYERS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Since its launch in 2012, IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment…
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Aquatic foods offer a sea of opportunities to combat climate change
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Environmental health
WorldFish’s research and innovation in climate-resilient and sustainably managed aquatic food syst…
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Eswatini releases orange fleshed sweetpotatoes variety
02.03.22Food insecurity and malnutrition are significant challenges facing the Kingdom of Eswatini, primaril…
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Sorghum variety 12KNICSV-188 (IMPROVED DEKO)
02.03.22For robust and responsive global to national breeding systems producing and delivering novel varieti…
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Micronutrient-rich sorghum cultivar: ICSR 14001 (Parbhani Shakti)
02.03.22For robust and responsive global to national breeding systems producing and delivering novel varieti…
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Community Seed Banks – A seed delivery approach for under-invested crops
02.03.22For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise, livelihood opportunities, and increased availab…
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Chakti: Iron biofortified Pearl Millet
02.03.22For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased avai…
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Women empowerment through bean flour
02.03.22For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased avai…
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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
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Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as…
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Using participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the poultry sector in Ethiopia
01.03.22-
Health
A new case study on the poultry sector in Ethiopia reports on the first use…
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Banana waste, potato’s gain
01.03.22These findings of research led by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe),…
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Dr. Oscar Ortiz named Director General ad interim of the International Potato Center
01.03.22Following the untimely passing of Dr. Barbara Wells on 16 February last, the Board of…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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The remarkable life of Alexandre Yersin
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Health
Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), a Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist who made extraordinary contri…
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Organizational change involves not only the technical — but the personal
28.02.22It’s often said that life is a rollercoaster, trundling between obstacles and successes. CGIAR is…
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STEP holds Agri-competition to attract young students to agriculture
28.02.22The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project, implemented by IITA in partnership with Maste…
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