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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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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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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
23.04.21-
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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
22.04.21-
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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
22.04.21-
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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
22.04.21-
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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:
22.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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
22.04.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
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
21.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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
21.04.21-
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Gender equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruptions of social interactions, affecting both th…
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Understanding basic gender concepts
21.04.21-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Gender concepts have evolved over the years. Old concepts have been refined or replaced with…
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The Agricultural Goldmines of Deserts
21.04.21-
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Covering about one-third of global land surface, deserts are characterized by little to no rainfall,…
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Researchers lobby for seed banks to ensure diversity, food security
21.04.21-
Biodiversity
In Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, research found that climate change has led to increased pests…
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New review provides framework for studying food systems to address food safety and nutrition
20.04.21-
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Nutrition
There is a need for better understanding of how food systems operate in order to…
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Many birds with one stone
19.04.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Ethiopia, farming systems rely heavily on animal and human power, reducing productivity and effic…
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COVID-19: How India fared during lockdown
19.04.21-
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The authors share 10 facts on India’s urban employment during the pandemic and the lockdown…
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From vicious to virtuous cycle: How the Alliance is tackling climate change and conflict
19.04.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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By embedding climate security and peacebuilding in research projects, Alliance researchers aim to he…
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Using Wild Relatives to Toughen up Staple Crops
18.04.21-
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Crop wild relatives (CWR) are the ancient ancestors of our domesticated crops. Because they have…
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Charting new ‘sustainable agricultural pathways’ in Brazil
17.04.21-
Environmental health
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Originally published as a blog in CoSAI news. Brazil is a large country spanning several…
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Little millet that are big on nutrition and yield identified at ICRISAT
16.04.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
A team of researchers has zeroed in on little millet germplasm with high nutrients, high…
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