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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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Policy seminar: The true cost of eating right – are nutritious diets becoming more accessible?
06.06.19-
Nutrition
Is healthy eating becoming more affordable on a global scale? Consumers in places like Africa…
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World Congress on Agroforestry kicks off today
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Monday 20 May 2019, Montpellier, France– The Fourth World Congress on Agroforestry opens today. …
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A4NH releases 2018 annual report
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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
31.05.19-
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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
30.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Will serve up healthier oil with longer shelf life After eight years of collaborative work,…
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HarvestPlus welcomes new UK commitment to support biofortification
30.05.19-
Nutrition
On May 23, HarvestPlus announced a major new commitment by the government of the United Kingdom to…
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Principles, practice, and the private sector’s role in malnutrition: Time to review red lines?
29.05.19-
Nutrition
The framing of malnutrition as a global problem that affects us all is long overdue.…
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Banana improvement project team meets to take stock, track progress and plan
27.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
An international team of researchers that is revolutionizing banana breeding in Eastern Africa are t…
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Conference on Advances in Classical Breeding and Application of Modern Breeding Tools for Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
24.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Plant breeding provides sustainable options to increase domestic food supply and dietary diversity i…
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Recipes to the rescue
22.05.19-
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Bioversity International partners with chefs, nutritionist, local communities and researchers to lev…
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Our health linked to our food linked to our biodiversity
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Biodiversity
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Dorothy Shaver, Global Sustainability Lead for Knorr, Unilever, marks the International Day for Biol…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
22.05.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report Mumbai launch: Building partnerships to spur rural revitalization
20.05.19-
Food security
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India’s report card on rural development presents a mixed picture: While a number of rural…
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Looking for the right tree for the right place? Agroforestry Species Switchboard Version 2
18.05.19-
Nutrition
The updated Agroforestry Species Switchboard is a ‘one-stop shop’ to retrieve data about plant s…
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Public–private–people partnership for cocoa and forests in Côte d’Ivoire
17.05.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For decades, Côte d’Ivoire has been the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa. Its…
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Eradicating hunger through the African Orphan Crops Consortium
17.05.19-
Nutrition
Training scientists in advanced plant genomics is set to transform nutrition in Africa. The Food…
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The human face of urban food systems
16.05.19-
Nutrition
The Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition and Health program aims to provide evidence…
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Innovating for change: Interview with Maria Andrade a sweetpotato champion
15.05.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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An accomplished sweetpotato breeder and tireless advocate for improving the nutrition and wellbeing …
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