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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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Promoting nonfarm businesses in Papua New Guinea can improve rural diets
22.09.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY GRACIE ROSENBACH AND EMILY SCHMIDT Rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) can provide a variety of ben…
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COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
14.09.20-
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL AND DEREK HEADEY As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and persist, disrupting…
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20 years of ASTI: The go-to source for data and analyses on agricultural research in developing countries
04.09.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY NIENKE BEINTEMA This year marks the 20th anniversary of ASTI, which provides open-source data, a…
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Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach
02.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY MIKE MURPHY, KATE AMBLER AND ALAN DE BRAUW Climate change poses a significant threat to livelih…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
31.08.20-
Food security
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Health
BY VIVIAN HOFFMANN AND EMILY WU In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin—a contaminant produced …
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High altitudes linked to higher rates of stunting
27.08.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KALEAB BAYE, KALLE HIRVONEN AND EMILY WU Child stunting affects nearly 155 million globally, on…
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Policy seminar: Unpacking the impacts of COVID-19 on economies, food systems, and poverty in African and Asian countries
26.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA Countries around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implemen…
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Data collection in a diverse and complex food system
25.08.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IFPRI’s objectives in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are to strengthen data collection and analysis to…
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Supermarket contracts boost incomes and reduce multidimensional poverty for smallholders in Kenya
25.08.20-
Gender equality
BY DENNIS O. OCHIENG AND EMILY WU As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
24.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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Making sense of why spouses disagree in household surveys
18.08.20-
Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, CHERYL DOSS, CAITLIN KIERAN AND SIMONE PASSARELLI With women’s empowerment an i…
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Book launch: COVID-19 and global food security - what have we learned so far?
17.08.20-
Food security
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Health
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post is based on remarks delivered during the Aug. 4 launch event for the…
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Zinc study suggests possible role for biofortification in addressing non-communicable diseases
12.08.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Laura Pompano and Erick Boy The double burden of malnutrition is a rapidly growing…
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Policy seminar: How food businesses are coping with COVID-19
10.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Swati Malhotra The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the world’s economy, food syste…
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New directions for agricultural value chain finance in Viet Nam
07.08.20-
Food security
By Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw , and Sylvan Herskowitz There is a global need…
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Policy seminar: Lessons from China about COVID-19 impacts on food security and livelihoods
06.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Khiem Nguyen Following the COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late December, the Chinese…
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Farmers’ responses to warming early in growing seasons can affect yields
03.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By Yanyan Liu and Emily Wu Most of the time, conversations about the impacts of…
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Policy seminar: Europe’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies aim to build healthy and sustainable food systems
30.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By Khiem Nguyen The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have underlined the importance of…
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