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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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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
26.10.18-
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Nutrition
A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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Policy seminar: Extending cold chains with solar power in Nigeria
17.10.18-
Food security
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In Nigeria, 45 percent of domestically produced food is lost due to spoilage, mostly because…
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Press Release: CGIAR Celebrates World Food Prize’s Focus on Reducing Child Stunting through Nutrition
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Nutrition
16 October 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Efforts must continue to be ramped up to tackle…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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World Food Day: Innovations are imperative to ending hunger and malnutrition
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Nutrition
Food security and nutrition are directly or indirectly related to all the Sustainable Development Go…
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
14.10.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington DC: Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, des…
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Evidence, interventions and impact: Building informal market food safety capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
09.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In September 2018, a Brussels Development Briefing featured discussions on "Food safety: A critical…
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A4NH releases Vietnam food system policy baseline report
05.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
The food systems for healthier diets research flagship of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture…
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Video on food safety research in Vietnam highlights importance of partnerships
04.10.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Hung Nguyen-Viet, regional representative for East and Southeast Asia and senior scientist at the In…
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Video: Food systems in Vietnam: Unique opportunities, rapid transformations
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Nutrition
Stef de Haan is A4NH's Country Coordinator in Vietnam, and Regional Program Management Officer for …
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Can you imagine a world of waste-wise cities? Accra leads the way
01.10.18-
Environmental health
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Health
The challengeWaste is piling up in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, which is home to…
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Video: Rice, malaria and Africa’s changing landscapes
25.09.18-
Health
Jo Lines, Reader of Malaria Control and Vector Biology at the London School of Hygiene…
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Creating a data-focused environment to address India's nutritional challenges
17.09.18-
Health
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Nutrition
BY PRATIMA MATHEWS New research analyses of key demographic data shine light on the drivers…
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New Study: Exposure to Air Pollution Leads to Lower Verbal, Math Test Scores
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Environmental health
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Health
Washington, D.C.: While health has long been thought the most common casualty of air pollution,…
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New Study: Dairy Intake Reduces Stunting Among Children in Bangladesh
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Milk consumption has a large impact on linear growth in the crucial first…
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Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems
27.08.18-
Food security
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Health
As food security becomes better assured, and food supply more complex, the negative impacts of…
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EAC launches policy briefs on aflatoxin prevention and control developed with IITA
23.08.18-
Food security
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Health
A set of policy briefs outlining key strategic policy recommendations and actions to prevent and…
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G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to collaborate on healthy, sustainable food future
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Food security
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Health
BY VALERIA PIÑEIRO AND SARA GUSTAFSON The countries that make up the G20 account for around…
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