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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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Millets prove tasty solution to climate and food security challenges
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Food security
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Nutrition
A renewed focus on boosting the production of millets and highlighting their benefits, is critical…
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Jordan rehabilitates its vast degraded Badia region at the micro scale
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Jordan's arid and degraded Badia region covers nearly 90% of the country's area and hosts…
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The importance of human-centered ecological restoration
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY JESSICA WALLACH The launch of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) will…
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Enlisting the dairy industry to end Colombia’s deforestation crisis
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Environmental health
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Food security
Colombia has seen rapidly increasing deforestation, especially in areas of the Amazon rainforest. Th…
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New report examines the impacts of COVID-19 control measures on food safety in East Africa
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Health
Following the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), measures to contain its spread …
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Informal food markets: what it takes to make them safer
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Health
Research has shown that improving the safety of food sold in informal markets can be…
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Advances in breeding operations can help deliver vital varieties to smallholder farmers
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Food security
Public breeding operations teams serving lower income countries need to upgrade their skills and too…
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Challenges for policy and research to reduce food loss and waste
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS Food loss and waste is a substantial global problem,…
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Old knowledge, new techniques – working together to rehabilitate degraded farmland
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For World Environment Day, Mira Haddad, ICARDA’s Associate Researcher in Spatio-temporal Assessme…
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New portal for gender-responsive agricultural research for development
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Gender equality
When it comes to agricultural systems, women and men don’t always see eye to eye.…
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Burkina Faso releases its first pearl millet hybrid
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
High-yieldng, downy mildew-resistant and suitable for food and fodder. Developed by ICRISATand evalu…
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New project: fostering human rights in food systems
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Food security
The Alliance is part of a multidisciplinary consortium recently awarded $3.8 million to launch the…
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Book: Moving Malawi beyond subsistence agriculture
02.06.21BY TODD BENSON Most of Malawi’s 4 million households still rely primarily on rainfed crop…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: Food system transformation and the impact of COVID-19 on African economies
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Nutrition
BY SOKHNA SALL SECK The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on public health, economic…
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COVID-19 impact on aquatic food systems reveals insights for future resilience
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The onset of COVID-19 disrupted food value chains and reversed years of progress on key…
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CIP mourns the passing of Ron Gall
31.05.21With heavy hearts, the International Potato Center (CIP) acknowledges the passing of Ron Gall, the…
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Policy-induced market distortions along agricultural value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
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Food security
BY GIRMA KASSIE AND SIMLA TOKGOZ In developing countries where agriculture comprises a significant p…
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CRP-GLDC Updates its Theory of Change
28.05.21The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals, ‘CRP-GLDC’ is a complex underta…
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