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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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A Path to Sustainable, Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa: Enhancing Science to Support the Agribusiness Ecosystem
13.10.21For more than 300 million people in Africa, maize is the most important dietary staple. Prod…
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Harnessing the nourishing potential of aquatic foods in India
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Food security
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Nutrition
A panel of food and nutrition security experts discussed the benefits of sustainable aquatic foods…
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The Future of Food is Wild
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Climate change is making it harder for farmers to grow enough food to feed their…
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Fifty years of cassava breeding
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Food security
Kasetsart 50 is a progeny that would make any parent proud. KU 50, as it’s…
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Business, researchers, farmers, NGOs and governments team up for sustainable cacao in South America
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Agroecological Regenerative Cocoa (ARC) project, which involves CGIAR centers, Conservation Inte…
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Building climate resilience into Bangladesh's coastal communities
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Around the world, aquatic food systems provide meaningful livelihoods for 60 million people and sust…
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Art exhibition showcases artist and farmer view of livestock development in Vietnam
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Biodiversity
About 120 artworks and photos on livestock from the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and…
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WorldFish key contributor to formation of Shanghai Declaration
12.10.21WorldFish’s Director General Gareth Johnstone voiced support for the development of a stainable aq…
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Join the PABRA Parallel session at Africa Plant Breeders Conference 2021
11.10.21The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA-Africa) is a great example of a successful CGIAR-NARES …
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New climate-resilient, disease-resistant chickpea varieties coming farmers’ way
11.10.21Developed through genomics-assisted breeding by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) a…
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Young farm entrepreneurs look at high-biomass sorghum and pearl millet for biofuel feedstock
11.10.21The Government of India’s concerted efforts to replace 20% fossil fuels with ethanol blends by…
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Nutrient-rich bean varieties and market linkages changing fortunes for farmers in Bomet County
11.10.21I was stranded and did not know where to get school fees for my children.…
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Trial by pasta: new uses for traditional Ethiopian wheat varieties
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Food security
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Nutrition
The Alliance has joined with Ethiopian research partners and Italian pasta makers to explore a…
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Promoting sustainable food production by upscaling best performing varieties of finger millet and bean through seed and product value chains: experiences from Hoima, Uganda
11.10.21Background Food and nutritional security of resource poor farmers globally is increasingly under thr…
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Can Weather Index Insurance be a win for all?
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Food security
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Gender equality
Developing countries are already enduring the worst of climate change. Floods and droughts are impac…
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Machine hiring centers create jobs for youth while saving time, cost and labor for farmers
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A farm machine-hiring center set up in two villages in South India is showing how…
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The challenge of securing women's land rights in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia
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Gender equality
Land rights remain a complex and ambiguous subject for the majority of people in sub-Saharan…
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ILRI researchers contribute to Scientific and Technical Review special issue on veterinary services
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Health
A special issue (Aug 2021) of the Scientific and Technical Review journal of the World…
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