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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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 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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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
02.03.22-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
01.03.22-
Biodiversity
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine affect global food security?
24.02.22-
Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND DAVID LABORDE The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has roiled commodity markets…
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Varying impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on farmer incomes: Evidence from India
24.02.22-
Food security
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, SAMYUKTHA KANNAN AND BERBER KRAMER Lockdowns and other social distancing meas…
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Two years on, resilience innovations help food supply chains overcome COVID-19 disruptions
23.02.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdow…
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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century
12.02.22-
Food security
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Health
Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate…
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The year of the Tiger and a leap into action
11.02.22-
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Food security
The Lunar New Year began on Feb 1st, 2022, bringing billions of people into the…
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COVID-19 and rising global food prices: What’s really happening?
10.02.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ROB VOS, JOSEPH GLAUBER, MANUEL HERNÁNDEZ AND DAVID LABORDE Food prices are skyrocketing around…
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FAO State of Food and Agriculture Report 2021: Diversification is key to building resilient agrifood systems
10.02.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY SWATI MALHOTRA Over the last few years, global food systems have been disrupted by…
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Nudging fisheries and aquaculture research towards food systems
08.02.22-
Food security
Faced with numerous challenges to nourishing a growing population, food system researchers are looki…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
31.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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Feed the microbes
28.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY JABOURY GHAZOUL At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow in 2021, 26 countries pledged to int…
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Emerging Youth: Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha
24.01.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Olatunde Olufunmike Kechicha is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Imoran Farms Nigeria L…
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CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2020 annual report
23.01.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) published its 2020 annual…
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Food systems transformation pathways: Moving from traditional to modernizing food systems
23.01.22-
Food security
The authors map national food system transformations in a recently developed typology, using economi…
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Crop breeders in eastern Africa modernize to end regional hunger
14.01.22-
Food security
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Nutrition
A quiet transformation is underway at the Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organisation (…
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Why winning the ‘water game’ in India requires team effort
14.01.22-
Environmental health
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Food security
Water isn't just a natural resource; it is also a peoples' resource, shared between communities,…
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Empowering female farmers through improved access to water technologies
13.01.22-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Solar irrigation technology has the potential to empower more than 12 million women farmers across…
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