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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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Special event: New IFPRI research program explores emerging problems of urban food systems
17.06.19-
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The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in…
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What developing countries can learn from Europe’s experience with rural revitalization
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IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) will be the focus of a June 19 European Development…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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How over 500 women in south India built sustainable livelihoods in face of drought
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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POWERGRID-ICRISAT project in Karnataka empowers through integrated watershed management Farm-depende…
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Development policy and practice – a case study in disruptive innovations
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Food security
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By Eva Ohlsson and Boleslaw Stawicki A disease that was supposed to have been preventable…
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Top shelf: Who has access to the healthiest processed foods?
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Nutrition
In 2013, Mexico had the fourth highest sales of ultra-processed products worldwide. This is indicati…
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A blueprint for South-South cooperation in agriculture
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India’s strides in agricultural science innovations can greatly benefit African nations, enhancing…
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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Celebrating the inaugural #WorldFoodSafetyDay: A focus on food safety research at ILRI
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Today, 7 June 2019, marks the first-ever World Food Safety Day. Food safety is a…
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Today is World Food Safety Day—Watch why safe food matters are life-and-death matters to poor people worldwide
07.06.19-
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Today, 7 Jun 2019, is the first-ever World Food Safety Day! #WorldFoodSafetyDay Here, for your…
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A4NH releases 2018 annual report
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health has published its 2018 annual…
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Strengthening ties to secure farm livelihoods in Niger
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Niger is among the youngest nations in the world with two-thirds of its population under…
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India’s first ‘high oleic’ groundnut varieties ready to go commercial
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Will serve up healthier oil with longer shelf life After eight years of collaborative work,…
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FEATURE: Can we grow our way out of the charcoal crisis?
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Environmental health
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Charcoal production in much of Africa is not only a major source of energy but…
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Innovating for change: Interview with Maria Andrade a sweetpotato champion
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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An accomplished sweetpotato breeder and tireless advocate for improving the nutrition and wellbeing …
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An Integrated, Economically-Sustainable Cassava Seed System is Emerging in Nigeria
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The project “Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS)” c…
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New case study presents nine-year follow-up of pilot project to improve food safety in Bodija market, Nigeria
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Health
A case study published in the March 2019 issue of the journal Infection Ecology & Epidemiology…
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Ending undernutrition requires a different focus on stunting
26.04.19-
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Nutrition
Anyone following international development is probably familiar with “stunting”—which in nonte…
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