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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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Addressing Mexico's aflatoxin challenge
04.03.19-
Health
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Nutrition
“The increasingly high prevalence of aflatoxins is a growing problem in Mexico,” says Natalia …
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Consumer demand and processed foods in Nigeria: A complex, evolving picture
28.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Nigeria faces many of the challenges confronting other low and middle-income countries today. Rapid …
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Livestock’s future: An opportunity not a threat
27.02.19-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future initiative published a white paper prepared by ILRI…
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Biodiversity loss threatens future of food
25.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The precious biodiversity that sustain our food systems is in decline, according to first-ever glo…
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Can Sub-Saharan Africa Feed Itself? A New Entry Point to An Old Question.
21.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This post originally appeared in African Leadership Magazine Can sub-Saharan Africa feed itself: Th…
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The genetic improvement of cowpea: Develop high-yielding varieties
21.02.19-
Nutrition
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals is working on genetic improvement of…
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Does aflatoxin stunt child growth? Evidence from the first randomized trial
21.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Current evidence on the link between aflatoxin and stunting is limited to observational research. A…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
15.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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There’s a new goal post for agriculture: It’s nutrition.
08.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
This blog post is the first in a 3-part series accompanying the release of the…
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Is our global food system broken?
08.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
An interview with Professor John Ingram, Oxford University Q: What is the EAT-Lancet report? JI:…
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Why empowering young people is key to ending global hunger and malnutrition
07.02.19-
Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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Use of Targeted Genome Editing
07.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
"CGIAR can play a role both in the development of crops and in the regulation…
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Are we eating less meat?—Oxford Martin School fellow Hannah Ritchie confirms ‘No’
05.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Broken Record Alert: People WILL NOT change their diets for environmental reasons. No matter how…
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Working with universities in developing countries
04.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
“ The SDGs require a common effort, everybody has a role.” In this video interview, Nighisty…
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Repairing food systems failures: Policies, innovations and partnerships
01.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The current food system is failing us. We need to develop a more integrated systems perspective…
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Acceleration through collaboration: IFPRI side event at Davos 2019
01.02.19-
Nutrition
To accelerate progress to end hunger and malnutrition, we must work together with all key…
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