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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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Celebrating One Health Day 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s One Health research
03.11.19-
Health
One Health Day is a global campaign marked annually on 3 November to bring attention…
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Poor in Africa south of the Sahara face rising disproportionate risks from extreme weather
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Weather shocks driven by climate change pose huge and still uncertain risks to the world’s…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
29.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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Celebrating Open Access Week 2019 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health
21.10.19-
Health
Open Access Week is celebrated globally every year during the last complete week of October. To…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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Tribal women farmers train to be ‘nutrition entrepreneurs’ to contribute to healthier community diets
11.10.19-
Gender equality
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Health
The hands that farm the fields and cook the family meals are now taking on…
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Addressing food safety questions along the value chain
07.10.19-
Health
From consumers working back through production, a research new paper, Food safety in low and…
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Voices from the field: Fighting aflatoxin in Nigeria
04.10.19-
Health
Aflatoxin cause health and economic problems for farmers across Africa. IITA scientist Adebowale Aka…
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Incorporating prevention into community-based management of acute malnutrition: Insights from Mali and Burkina Faso
04.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Globally, 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. Children with moderate acute malnutrit…
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Steering the seed revolving fund initiative to meet growing farmers’ demand for certified seed
04.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Health
Adoption of new varieties can never be successful until efficient seed delivery systems are in…
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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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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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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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ILRI researchers propose traceability system for Kenya’s smallholder pig value chain
24.09.19-
Health
A traceability system in the smallholder pig value chain in Kenya could help address challenges…
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Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
23.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researc…
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