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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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IITA Tree Heritage Park accredited by ARBNET
20.01.22The IITA Tree Heritage Park (THP), located within the campus of the International Institute of…
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NEMEDUSSA Consortium Advancing Nematology Education in Sub-Sahara Africa
20.01.22To develop the research and educational capacity in Sub-Sahara Africa in the field of nematology,…
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BASICS-II and AGRA to collaborate in scaling cassava seed systems in Nigeria
20.01.22The Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, phase 2 (BASICS-II) project…
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Climate migration and social transformation: embracing complexity
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Gender equality
Unpredictable rainfall patterns, droughts and floods linked to climate change are increasingly drivi…
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Scientific evidence shows eating millets leads to better growth in children
19.01.22Researchers examining the nutritional benefits of millets have found that these “smart foods” ca…
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Farmers in southern Mali dial ‘S’ for success
19.01.22Sènèkèla/Sandji mobile-based services make climate and agro-advisory information available to far…
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Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nearly four decades of repeated crossing and selection for heat and drought tolerance have greatly…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
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Food security
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Nutrition
A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit: Leveraging Japanese knowledge to address global health and nutrition challenges
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Health
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA,FUTOSHI YAMAUCHI AND HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA As many developing countries face enormous…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
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Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Empowering female farmers through improved access to water technologies
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solar irrigation technology has the potential to empower more than 12 million women farmers across…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT,ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN During the past several years, we have…
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Improved varieties sow a better future in Mali’s groundnut hubs
11.01.22Improved varieties are helping increase groundnut production, farm incomes, improving lives and empo…
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New climate-smart sorghum and millet varieties improve nutrition and incomes of Malian farmers
11.01.22High-yielding sorghum with grain yield between 1.8 to 2 t/ha and dry fodder yield of…
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Guidelines for genetic purity testing in high oleic groundnut variety seed production
11.01.22The national release of high oleic groundnut varieties Girnar 4 (ICGV 15083) and Girnar 5…
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2021 was the year of collaboration in breeding informatics
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Gender equality
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6RfglCQkI[/embed] In March 2021, a new network of specialis…
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Hands-on training in genomic tools for crop research organized in Mali
10.01.22To train the next generation of researchers in the use of genomic tools for enhancing…
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