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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Six key principles for improving agricultural water productivity
15.07.21-
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Over two billion people already live in areas experiencing high water stress, and that number…
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A global manifesto to conserve forgotten foods
15.07.21-
Biodiversity
We are excited to announce the launch of a global manifesto for collective actions onforgotten food…
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UNFSS Science Days: Groundwater can play a key role in transforming Africa’s food systems
14.07.21-
Environmental health
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pi…
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Roots and tubers can help households to weather storms
14.07.21When super-typhoon Ompong blasted through the northern Philippines in September 2018, farmers who gr…
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Farmers prefer locally bred CBSD-resistant cassava clones in DRC
14.07.21The USAID-funded Action to Control Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) in the Democratic Republic of…
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IITA to strengthen collaboration with BUK
14.07.21An IITA-Kano delegation led by Station Head Alpha Kamara visited the Vice-Chancellor Bayero Universi…
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Improved eating: Healthy benefits of fortified snacks
14.07.21Eating healthy snacks is one way to combat poor nutrition, while legumes can replace animal-based…
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ENABLE-TAAT provides youth networking platform at Tanzania open day
14.07.21ENABLE-TAAT has held the Tanzanian edition of its open day to increase youth inclusion and…
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Putting youth at the heart of aquatic food system transformations
14.07.21-
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Nutrition
Young people today step into the world at a critical crossroads for our food systems.…
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My First Dialogue on the Path to the 2021 Food Systems Summit
14.07.21-
Food security
By Erika Eliana MosqueraI had heard about the Food Systems Summit, the major event the…
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UNFSS Science Days: Reforming agricultural policies to support food systems transformation
13.07.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
According to the OECD’s recently released 2021 Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation Repor…
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COVID-19, food systems, and One Health in an urbanizing world: Research responses at a national level
13.07.21The course and effects of COVID-19 have exposed new vulnerabilities in our global food system.…
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UNFSS Science Days: Promise of the commons for sustainable and equitable food systems
13.07.21-
Environmental health
BY HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The commons (natural resources held and used collectively) sup…
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Roots and tubers can help households to weather storms
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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When super-typhoon Ompong blasted through the northern Philippines in September 2018, farmers who gr…
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Resolving tensions between global development goals and local aspirations
13.07.21The Sustainable Development Goals – a set of 17 globally agreed-upon targets for the year 2030 â…
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New high-yielding pigeonpea variety set for release in India, more to come
13.07.21DRG 59, a high-yielding variety of pigeonpea resistant to Fusarium wilt and sterility mosaic disease…
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Haveli cultivation turns desolated landscape into paradise: Case study of Poora Birdha village, Lalitpur district
13.07.21Highlights 200-year-old traditional rainwater harvesting system brought back into practice Construct…
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Modernizing crop breeding to safeguard tomorrow’s populations
13.07.21When designing our research, the most significant variable that crop breeders like me consider is…
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