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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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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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Crunching IFPRI data to build research capacity in Papua New Guinea
03.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
One of IFPRI’s most important pillars is capacity building, which includes training students and g…
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Locally-grown fruits and vegetables can improve diets of rural women in India
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiency, is especially acute among women in India. In Mahar…
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TICAD7 Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges
27.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
To feed its growing population amid climate change and other challenges, Africa needs a flourishing…
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Scaling up the use of Orange Fleshed Puree for Baked and Fried Products
27.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
In late May the International Potato Centre (CIP) organized a stakeholder engagement and launch meet…
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Fish micronutrients ‘slipping through the hands’ of malnourished people
26.09.19-
Nutrition
New research published reveals the potential of marine fisheries to help tackle nutrient deficiencie…
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Programs need to focus on the double burden of malnutrition: Evidence from Guatemala
25.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Most countries, at all levels of development and in all regions of the world, today…
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Genomics delivers ‘super chickpea’ in record time
20.09.19-
Nutrition
Two improved varieties developed through genomics-assisted breeding are headed for Indian farms Indi…
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Regional Focus: Working towards healthy diets
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
IRRI's regional representative for South Asia, Nafees Meah, speaks with Geography and You to discuss…
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Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program's impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen
16.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the…
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Understanding what impacts last after the project ends
12.09.19-
Nutrition
Little is known about what happens after a development project ends. Scientists with HarvestPlus ret…
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ANH Academy launches technical brief on economic evaluations of multi-sectoral actions for nutrition and health
12.09.19-
Nutrition
The technical working group of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy has published a…
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12 years of research on Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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12 years of Tropical Legumes: 25 million smallholder farmers now grow improved varieties
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over a period of 12 years (2007-2019), the Tropical Legumes projects led to the development…
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Multiple bridges connecting the water-nutrition divide: What’s new?
06.09.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This was the question discussed by experts at a session during this year’s World Water…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
03.09.19-
Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
03.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
30.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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