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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 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
16.05.25-
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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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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Latin American rice sector: Situation analysis and perspectives
20.05.21-
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With over 2.3 million confirmed cases to date, and more than a third of the…
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The Pollination Services of Forests
20.05.21-
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Since they are a vital part of the reproduction process of many plants, a decline…
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Charting a productive, sustainable future for small farms amid food system transformation
19.05.21-
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BY XINSHEN DIAO,THOMAS REARDON, ADAM KENNEDY AND JESSICA WALLACH While urbanization is shrinking ru…
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G+ Tools Provide a Clearer View to Crop Breeding
19.05.21-
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In this famous optical illusion, some people see a rabbit, while others see a duck.…
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Global Food and Hunger Challenges Projected to Increase Mortality, Disability by 2050
18.05.21-
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BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Report…
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Boosting Malawi’s aquaculture production for food security
18.05.21-
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Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…
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ACIAR Australia video highlights successful investments in global wheat research
18.05.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), a longtime partner of the C…
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Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?
18.05.21-
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…
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From the field: climate-smart agriculture in Zimbabwe
18.05.21-
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Watch the video and read more about the Alliance’s ongoing work to increase farmers’ resilience…
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Working to make gender research actionable in Honduras
18.05.21-
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Given the challenge of making gender approaches and concepts actionable, especially the concept of w…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
17.05.21-
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While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
17.05.21-
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Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Benin joins PABRA to introduce sustainable bean research for development in West Africa
17.05.21Did you know that almost 80 percent of Benin’s 11.2 million people earn a living…
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New common bean varieties to benefit African women and children
17.05.21Good progress has been made in the first 12 months of an innovative project linking…
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Gender and Nutrition considerations in Demand Led Breeding: Experiences from Rwanda
17.05.21Participatory plant breeding is not new in Rwanda. Its history can be traced between 1988…
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How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia
17.05.21Chickpea farmers have adopted new varieties to achieve commercialisation, say scientists The use of …
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Digital Technologies Keep Farmers Productive During COVID 19
14.05.21-
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The COVID 19 pandemic has made more clear than ever the need for and role…
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