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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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The importance of human-centered ecological restoration
20.06.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
The launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) will direct a lot of…
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Adult plant resistance (APR): the strategy to beat persistent pathogens
18.06.21The three rust diseases, yellow (stripe) rust, black (stem) rust, and brown (left) rust occur…
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Hybrid seed production and marketing advances
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Food security
“My goal is to produce and sell 200 metric tons of hybrid maize by 2025,”…
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The transformational role of science for the UN Food Systems Summit agenda
17.06.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY JOACHIM VON BRAUN Food systems at the global level and in many countries and…
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STEP-Oyo bets on the next generation to secure food security
17.06.21Oyo State has realized that the interest of teenagers and youth can be captured through…
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IITA and TOUTON Ltd - Coffee farmer diversification strategies
17.06.21The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Uganda Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) …
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Working towards a decent standard of living for smallholder coffee farmers in the Mount Elgon region
17.06.21The GIZ Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) programme has partnered with the…
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Catalyzing a greater supply of seed potato in Kenya
15.06.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As a food security crop and cash crop, potato is a source of income for farmers, traders and…
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Hands-on experience in seed production
15.06.21Recently, a group of 40 postgraduate students from Nepal’s Agriculture and Forestry University (AF…
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Innovation, the key for bridging R&D with impact at scale
14.06.21The need to innovate in agriculture is more urgent than ever. Rising populations will require…
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Nine more harvests to transform our food systems: Let’s make them count for everyone, everywhere, and for all time
14.06.21-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
BY CHRISTINE CAMPEAU, LAWRENCE HADDAD, GUNHILD STORDALEN, SANDRINE DIXSON-DECLÈVE,SALEEMUL HUQ AND …
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Global Landscapes Forum Africa: Restoring Africa’s drylands needs a localized, integrated approach, say experts at the conference
11.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
At the recent GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Conference, thousands of restoration practit…
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Feminization of agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities (Webinar #1)
11.06.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This PIM webinar, recorded on June 10, 2021, presents the findings from five projects that…
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Stories of change: Analyzing aspirations of rural women and men
11.06.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Study in Kenya sought to understand where rural women and men see their opportunities and…
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Moving forward with sustainable forage-based livestock production systems in Colombia
11.06.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Sustainability is a word that is used more and more often these days. Although the…
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Smallholder and agrifood SME resilience to shocks: Lessons from COVID-19 for the UN Food System Summit
10.06.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the…
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A manifesto on Forgotten Foods for Asia-Pacific with farmers in focus
10.06.21Farmer collectives, research, policy and advocacy institutions in Central Asia and Asia-Pacific regi…
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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
10.06.21A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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