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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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‘One Nation One Ration Card’ can transform lives in India
06.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
On June 27, India Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced plans to move towards a system of…
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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020
01.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestoc…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
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Gender equality
How can social protection programs be truly inclusive? Taking a social inclusion lens to agricultura…
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How we can protect the world’s most vulnerable countries against climate shocks
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Extreme weather events and other climate change-linked disasters have devastated communities globall…
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Policy seminar: Rohingyas displaced to Bangladesh face an uncertain future
23.07.19-
Gender equality
In 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar and crossed into southeastern…
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PIM Newsletter: April – June 2019
19.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
PIM news and updated from the second quarter of 2019: new research, publications, PIM webinars,…
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DailyMaverick.co.za: As water systems fail across the country, rural communities look to self-supply
17.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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What's the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
16.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve …
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PIM Achievements in 2018: Highlights
15.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Sound policies and well-functioning institutions and markets are essential to building sustainable a…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
08.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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From smallholders to entrepreneurs, growing farmer resilience through Farmer Business Schools
04.07.19-
Gender equality
Rural Filipino farmers are reinventing themselves from smallholders to food-processing entrepreneurs…
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick receives Elinor Ostrom Award
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
The 2019 Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons acknowledges Ruth Meinzen-Dickâ…
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De-risking agricultural value chains using climate-smart agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
In April 2019, professionals from the soft commodity sectors who represent diverse value chains acro…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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Research approaches required for supporting the empowerment of pastoral dairy women
01.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Maasai woman feeding her child milk (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The especially rich and clearl…
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Conference: Challenges of eliminating child labor in agriculture and food chains
28.06.19-
Gender equality
Around the world, more than 70% of child labor is found in the agriculture sector—an…
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Are high land rental costs pricing African youth out of agriculture?
21.06.19-
Gender equality
A new study shows that youth can face higher land rental prices than older farmers in Tanzania…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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