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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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SciDev.net: Arsenic in groundwater – no silver bullet
07.02.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Soumya Balasubramanya tells SciDev.Net that the recommendations outlined in new United Nations Unive…
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Publication showcases 50 years of IITA’s plant health research
03.02.19-
Health
A new book, titled “Critical issues in plant health: 50 years of research in African…
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Unlocking the potential of genomics to accelerate sustainable development
28.01.19-
Health
Countries around the world came together at the 1996 World Food Summit to commit to…
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Reconciling growth with nature’s gifts
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Environmental health
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Health
Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Multisectoral approach improves child growth in Guatemala
07.12.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition programs that incorporate food rations, a beha…
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Lancet Countdown 2018 report shows concerning trends in heat and heat waves, infectious disease and declining food security
29.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is a multidisciplinary, interna…
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Tanzania registers AflasafeTZ—the effective technology to combat aflatoxin
22.11.18-
Food security
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Health
The eagerly awaited registration of AfasafeTZ by the Tropical Pesticides Research Institute in Tanza…
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Strategic simplification to create healthy and sustainable food systems in an urbanizing world
21.11.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
Food systems are shaped by consumption and demand—we need to always keep this in mind.…
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NEW STUDY: Urbanization associated with lower rates of child stunting but higher rates of obesity among women
20.11.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C: Urbanization is changing the landscape of health and nutrition in Africa, and in…
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Animal-sourced foods are vital to combating malnutrition and stunting in the developing world
19.11.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
When poorly nourished children in developing countries fall behind in their physical growth and be…
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The SDGs on Zero Hunger and Clean Water and Sanitation can’t be achieved without each other, so where do we start?
16.11.18-
Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
The 2015-2030 period has become a crucial time for progress in global sustainable development: The …
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A new project promises to generate better dietary and health data for agriculture and nutrition interventions in Africa
15.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Despite significant efforts to address it, malnutrition remains a major impediment to development ar…
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A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition
15.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Derek Headey, a senior research fellow at the CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute…
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High pesticide use among smallholders in Africa south of the Sahara poses risks for health, environment
13.11.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Africa south of the Sahara is urbanizing rapidly and its real GDP is growing robustly,…
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New Study: Improvement in Education and Wealth - Key to Anemia Reduction Among Expectant Mothers and Children in India
12.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
Washington D.C.: Improved public health and nutrition programs for children under five years of age,…
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Forman Lecture: Barry Popkin on the growing global problem of junk food and sugary drinks
12.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Efforts to improve global nutrition face serious headwinds from the growing marketing and consumptio…
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Call to improve food safety in low- and middle-income countries—From hazards to risks and from farm to fork
28.10.18-
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Nutrition
The Milkmaid, by Johannes Vermeer, 1660. Food safety hazards are increasingly recognized as a major…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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