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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
22.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The CGIAR Research Program on Fisheries Agri-Food Systems (FISH) came to a successful conclusion aft…
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Using drones to select drought-tolerant sweetpotatoes
21.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Droughts have long posed a threat to farmers in southern Africa, and models predict they w…
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The UN must get climate-smart for peace and security
21.12.21Photo credit: U.S. Department of State Grazia Pacillo, CGIAR Climate Security FOCUS Senior Economist…
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Cash transfers and women’s decision-making in Egypt: Still a man’s world
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Gender equality
BY HODA EL-ENBABY, Â DANIEL O. GILLIGAN, Â NAUREEN KARACHIWALLA, Â YUMNA KASSIM ANDÂ SIKANDRA KURDI …
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DR Congo and donors to invest more in agriculture in 2022 – IITA DG
21.12.21“Telling the stories of the impact agricultural research is making in Africa can only generate…
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UN Deputy Secretary-General visits IITA in Ibadan, Nigeria
21.12.21The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Hajia Amina J. Mohammed, visited IITA headquarters in Ibadan as par…
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Interventions for women’s empowerment and repercussions for family welfare: Evidence from Uganda
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Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, KELLY JONES AND MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN Empowering women is a goal of many development …
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How can climate science support peace and security in the Middle East and North Africa? What the experts say
21.12.21Tanaya Dutta Gupta, Alice Taylor, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach With impacts of climate change incr…
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Making peanuts safe
21.12.21Aflatoxin in peanuts remains an unsolved problem for people with a small food budget, and…
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Harnessing the potential of rural youth for sustainability of agriculture: Insight from Northern Nigeria
21.12.21Active involvement of youth in all agri-food value chains is necessary for the sustainability of…
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Identity marker nuances in adoption of tandem technologies: Beer, barley, livestock, and milk: who adopts agricultural innovations in rural Rajasthan?
21.12.21Learnings emanating from the Green Revolution in India indicate that the ability of development inte…
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Revising aquaculture curriculums to support youth in Zambia
20.12.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While Zambia’s aquaculture sector is growing considerably, which is largely contributed to the…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 side event discusses the role of informal markets within future food systems
20.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 took place on 7–8 December 2021. Ahead of the…
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Researchers map Ethiopia’s irrigated areas at a previously unavailable resolution
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Remote sensing data enables IWMI researchers to identify irrigated areas at a resolution of 30…
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The pandemic, labour migration and the roles of small-scale farming in rural Vietnam
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The impacts of COVID-19 have been various and multi-fold, reaching into every sector of our…
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Do international and national climate policies undermine peace and security? An expert discussion
17.12.21Frans Schapendonk, Giulia Caroli, Alice Taylor, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach Climate change has an…
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How can Agriculture Research for Development Inform the Sustainable Development Goals?
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Gender equality
While the Independent Science for Development Council (ISDC) is exploring the co-design of a 2022-24…
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Harnessing aquatic foods for sustainable healthy diets
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
The recent UN Food Systems Summit and COP26 generated a consensus around the urgent need…
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