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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
16.05.25-
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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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Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program's impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen
16.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the…
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Forage sorghum hybrid hailed as a landmark cultivar in India
13.09.19-
Food security
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Health
A new sorghum hybrid developed using ICRISAT breeding material was recently given special recognitio…
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Food policies for healthier diets
05.09.19-
Health
Programs for improving diets often focus on demand, providing incentives to groups of consumers. How…
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CGIAR at AGRF 2019
03.09.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), considered to be the world’s most important forum for…
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Independent.co.uk: World health chiefs call for more studies on microplastics in drinking water
22.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Research gap must be filled but meanwhile governments and businesses must urgently reduce plastic pr…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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Researchers call for a gendered approach in strategies for community uptake of livestock vaccines
16.08.19-
Health
The design of strategies for uptake of livestock vaccines by communities in East Africa should…
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New review article tackles the question: Can aflatoxin binders in foods be promoted safely and ethically?
09.08.19-
Health
A new review article finds that there are too many issues with using lactic acid…
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Guiding farmers to safer use of pesticides in Rwanda and Burundi
08.08.19-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s hard to overstate the importance of root, tuber, and banana (RTB crops) for smallholder…
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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US Government renews commitment to Mali’s food security and agriculture-led economic growth
12.07.19-
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Renewing its commitment to investments in Mali, USAID’s partnership declaration event at the US Em…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
11.07.19-
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Nutrition
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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System effects modelling helps identify challenges, impacts and strategies for improving food safety
10.07.19-
Health
In May 2019, food safety researchers from Cambodia and Vietnam participated in a training on…
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Celebrating World Zoonoses Day with a focus on ILRI’s research on zoonotic diseases
06.07.19-
Health
To celebrate World Zoonoses Day, marked annually on 6 July, we take a look at…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
28.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Fifty technologies in five years – Feed the Future, MISST project shares outcomes in Malawi
28.06.19-
Food security
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Health
Over 245,000 households reached 14,500 MT of seed produced, over 50 technologies developed – these…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
24.06.19-
Health
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Nutrition
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria
21.06.19-
Health
A new study published in the June 2019 issue of the journal Lancet Planetary Health…
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