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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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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Big data
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Building resilient aquatic food livelihoods in Myanmar
WorldFish24.03.21-
Environmental health
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WorldFish researchers are working alongside small-scale aquatic food producers and value chain actor…
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What is nixtamalization?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)23.03.21-
Nutrition
For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known…
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Crisis in the Himalayas: climate change and unsustainable development
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)23.03.21-
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Environmental health
The [Uttarakhand flood] disaster last month in India demonstrated the risks from rising temperatures…
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Over 5000 rice value chain actors in Senegal to benefit from youth-focused COVID-19 response
AfricaRice23.03.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Saint Louis - Senegal, 23 March 2021 To support the government of Senegal’s efforts in…
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BASICS-II kicks off partnership to promote improved cassava varieties cultivation and consumption
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)23.03.21SANO Foods Limited and IITA, through the Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava S…
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Women in leadership: Promoting an equal future
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)23.03.21The month of March hosts several gender-based celebrations, including International Women’s Day (I…
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Take a virtual tour of the Alliance’s Genebanks
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)23.03.21-
Biodiversity
Watch our latest video to learn what goes on behind the scenes to conserve of…
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A new seasonal climate forecast system supports East African agriculture
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)23.03.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
For World Meteorological Day, we're looking at how seasonal climate forecasts have been developed in…
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The RTB Toolbox: Building capacities for seed systems development
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)22.03.21-
Food security
Twimanye Makoye is a commercial sweetpotato farmer in Bukombe District in Northwest Tanzania. He pro…
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World Water Day 2021: How can we manage better what we value most?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)22.03.21-
Environmental health
BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The theme of World Water Day 2021 (March 22) is “Valuin…
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Trends in Varietal Diversity of Main Staple Crops in Asia and Africa and Implications for Sustainable Food Systems
International Potato Center (CIP)22.03.21A recent study from the International Potato Center (CIP) calls attention to downward trends in…
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Water storage gaps are growing worldwide. We need an integrated approach
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)22.03.21-
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For millennia, storing water has been a cornerstone of survival for many societies, especially in…
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International Forests Day: The crucial value of India’s common lands
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)19.03.21-
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Environmental health
BY HARPINDER SANDHU, WEI ZHANG, HAGAR ELDIDI AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK Common lands, whether communal…
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Launch event: Agricultural Investment Data Analyzer (AIDA) guides policy makers on potential economic and social impacts
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)19.03.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DALIA ELSABBAGH Investments in agriculture can have broad economic and social impacts. To help…
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UK Minister Lord Ahmad visits ICRISAT, discusses climate action
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)19.03.21-
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Health
Lord Tariq Ahmad, Minister of State for South Asia and the Commonwealth in the UK…
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The European Commission hopes for greater collaboration to improve food and nutrition security
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)19.03.21-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Delegates from the European Commission to Mali expressed interest in exploring new opportunities for…
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Watershed interventions provide groundwater access all year through
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)19.03.21-
Environmental health
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Health
Water conservation structures in Anantapuramu: A check dam (L) constructed in Kondampalle village, A…
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Investing in rural women farmers narrows the gender gap in agriculture
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)19.03.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The glaring inequality between men and women farmers in the African agricultural sector is alarming…
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