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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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https://www.worldfishcenter.org/spotlighting-seaweed-global-food-systems-agenda
23.10.21-
Food security
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Seaweed holds enormous potential to transform food systems for improved sustainability, equity and n…
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Using the new IMF Special Drawing Rights for larger purposes: Guaranteeing ‘pandemic recovery bonds’
22.10.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA International Monetary Fund (IMF) members and staff must be congratulated f…
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World Food Prize Highlights: Aquatic foods make a splash in Des Moines
22.10.21-
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WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Shakuntala Thilsted landed in Des Moines, …
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Beans, Beans, and the Power of Genes
22.10.21-
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by Steve Beebe Agriculture is one of the key foundations of human society. Agriculture has…
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Press release: Aquatic foods make a splash at World Food Prize
22.10.21-
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WorldFish scientist Shakuntala Thilsted receives award for her influential research on nutrition, fi…
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World Food Prize Laureate champions aquatic foods at CGIAR Anniversary
21.10.21-
Nutrition
CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research and innovation network, marked its 50th year anni…
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Tools and training to increase farmer access to quality seed
21.10.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sweetpotato is a highly productive crop and orange-fleshed varieties are an excellent source of vita…
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How can we respond to climate security crises in Africa? An expert discussion on the Africa Climate Security Observatory
21.10.21Photo credit: Staff Sgt Erik Cardenas Authors Frans Schapendonk, Giulia Caroli, Peter Laderach, Graz…
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CGIAR Makes Commitment at UNFSS for Food Systems Transformation
20.10.21CGIAR Managing Director of Global Engagement and Innovation, Kundhavi Kadiresan, joined heads of sta…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on how Farming with Alternative Pollinators improves smallholder farmers' incomes significantly
19.10.21-
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An open-access paper in Nature reports on the significant advantages of using the low-cost Farming…
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Economic workshop: Fostering China’s integrated urban-rural development
19.10.21-
Gender equality
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BY QIYUN HUANG China faces ongoing challenges integrating the economies of its rural and urban…
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ICARDA Presents Achievements in India’s Grand Agricultural Exhibition
18.10.21ICARDA’s Food Legume Research Platform (FLRP) in Madhya Pradesh, India and a number of leading…
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Perfecting the potato, with help from Peru’s farmers
16.10.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This World Food Day, the International Potato Center (CIP) announced a new disease-resistant potato …
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International Day of Rural Women 2021: Overcoming pandemic and climate challenges
15.10.21-
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND ELIZABETH BRYAN The International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) was establis…
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Rural women revolutionize the fight against malnutrition in Odisha, India
15.10.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Linking locally-sourced aquatic foods with food and nutrition policies in the coastal state of …
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Rangeland Women: Why Supporting Them Could Save Tunisia’s Degraded Ecosystems
14.10.21-
Gender equality
Across the drylands, there is a widespread misconception surrounding rural women's involvement in ra…
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Global research effort sets the stage for an aquatic food future
14.10.21-
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Food systems account for half of the earth’s biocapacity and are responsible for 25 percent of…
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Four strategies to achieve inclusive and equitable aquatic food systems
14.10.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) gender scientists recommend four pathways to…
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