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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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Breeding for Better Gender Equity
13.02.20-
Gender equality
A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to…
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Projects funded by Germany make a difference to people, trees, ecology
12.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Grants from BMZ enrich and push boundaries at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Each year, seeking ‘innov…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
11.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato…
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Fireflies, food and future systems – scientists share inspiration behind choosing science as a lifestyle
10.02.20-
Gender equality
Plant breeding, genetics, math and software development are all stereotypically male fields. For too…
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India’s 16-point agriculture plan may falter if it doesn’t focus on incentives
10.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
One of the great examples that economists give on the power of incentives in Econ…
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Women in Science: Tackling Global Issues
10.02.20-
Gender equality
For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, eleven researchers share how their work addr…
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After 10 years, Triple S has brought back sweetpotato to us
07.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
1st Amburse Kebele in East Badewacho district was once known as a prolific sweetpotato growing…
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Why gender matters for soil health as part of sustainable food systems
05.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
While healthy soils play a critical role in supporting agricultural productivity, climate change mit…
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Include small indigenous productions systems to improve rural livelihoods
04.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, Uni…
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'Getting gender right' is essential for the sustainability of food systems
04.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
The growing emphasis on sustainability of food systems (rather than of agriculture alone) highlights…
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Leaving the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership: India’s missed opportunity?
03.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In November, India decided to opt out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP),…
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The importance of supporting women farmers
30.01.20-
Gender equality
The potato is an increasingly important crop among smallholder farmers in Africa, where production h…
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‘Phygital’ tech powered by public-private partnerships promises climate solutions for Nigerian agriculture
24.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An innovative technology that bridges digital approaches and physical interventions on farms and off…
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Eight food processing units to target malnutrition and poverty in South India’s hinterlands
17.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The facilities aim to create sustainable business opportunities around nutritious diets for tribal f…
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Economic growth and decent work from natural resources: how Sustainable Development Goal 8 will affect forests and forest-dependent livelihoods
16.01.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Scientists argue that forests will only remain standing if the world changes its paradigm of…
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The promise and challenges of India’s Direct Benefit Transfer agricultural subsidies
13.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Agriculture is the backbone of India’s rapidly-transforming economy, and one of the government’s…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
07.01.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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How climate finance and technology could better integrate women
30.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Amid frustrated negotiations around Article 6 guidance on emissions counting and carbon markets, U…
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