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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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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Can child wasting be prevented in times of crisis? Evidence from Burundi
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This post is the sixth in a series on a research project in Guatemala and Burundi…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
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BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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NAQS honors IITA with “Service Support Award” for phytosanitary capacity development
27.04.21A long-time collaborator and partner, the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Services (NAQS), honored …
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Study: Examining wealth and residential inequalities in India’s double burden of malnutrition
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The double burden of malnutrition—the coexistence of underweight and micronutrient deficiencies wi…
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Georgia Seed Model Farm Opens
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Dignitaries, researchers, and private sector representatives gathered this week in southwestern Geor…
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Leaders Summit on Climate: USAID Announcements
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
On April 22-23, President Biden hosted a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate to catalyze global…
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The golden eggs that keep on giving
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Food security
Ask any child who is well versed in Aesop’s fables and you will learn that…
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Biofortified sweetpotato improving lives of smallholder farmers in Malawi
23.04.21Historically, most of Malawi’s food has been produced by small-scale farmers operating on less tha…
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A good pearl millet hybrid gets even better
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A team of researchers in India has bettered an immensely popular pearl millet hybrid, HHB…
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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
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The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announced a new three-year public–pr…
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Gender researchers highlight approaches to achieving equal opportunities
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Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are a WorldFish-pioneered innovation that has been in contin…
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Earth Day 2021: Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
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BY CLAUDIA RINGLER COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated o…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
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Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sustainability and food security – …
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How the CGIAR FOCUS on Climate Security helps to Restore our Earth:
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Interview with Peter Laderach by Nina de Ayala Parker For the 51st Earth Day 2021 I…
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Restoring agriculture to transform food systems
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COVID-19 may have forced the 50th anniversary of Earth Day to be commemorated online last year,…
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Earth Day 2021: Understanding the role of gender in building healthier soils
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BY WEI ZHANG AND JESSICA WALLACH Maintaining healthy soils is crucial to long-term agricultural sus…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers rare chance for food systems transformation
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both th…
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