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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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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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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
20.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
14.08.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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Multi-national company nurtures a Climate-Smart Village, facilitates return of migrant farmers
14.08.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Plummeting groundwater levels and adverse rainfall patterns forced farmers in Buchinelli village in …
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Key recommendations to boost small-scale aquaculture in inland Myanmar
13.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Small-scale aquaculture is a vital source of food and income in Myanmar. At present, it…
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Policy seminar: How food businesses are coping with COVID-19
10.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Swati Malhotra The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the world’s economy, food syste…
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What have we learned about the Science of Scaling?
09.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
One Acre Fund works with approximately 450,000 farm households in Rwanda, and is collaborating with…
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Policy seminar: Lessons from China about COVID-19 impacts on food security and livelihoods
06.08.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Khiem Nguyen Following the COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late December, the Chinese…
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New project aims to improve food and nutritional security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recently launched project, with a focus on iron- and zinc-fortified hybrids and open-pollinated va…
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Adding value to smallholder farming in Malawi
31.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smallholder farmers in Malawi, with support from a seed development project and government initiativ…
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It is time to rethink Uganda’s policy approach to trees on farms
30.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Researchers call on the Government to promulgate the draft national agroforestry strategy to hasten …
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests study in the spotlight at COFI virtual dialogues
30.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 300 experts from over 50 countries are contributing to the Illuminating Hidden Harvests…
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Soil health key priority for better livelihoods of Odisha farmers
23.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Under an extensive soil health mapping program in Odisha state, India, over 40,200 soil samples…
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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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How and why to merge ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance?
22.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The pertinence of ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance couldn’t be more timely considering th…
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Low-cost drought-proofing strategies help farmers in southern India
15.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Collaborative project with Power Grid Corp of India has significant scale-out potential Technologies…
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Coconut bashing?
15.07.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the worlds’ coconut beaches are all very quiet from the pause in global tourism…
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Phone surveys to understand gendered impacts of COVID-19: A cautionary note
14.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the health and economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to evolve, researchers have been using…
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A new vista emerging: local, diverse food chains
14.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
COVID-19 has exposed the vulnerability of our economies to shocks, with governments desperately look…
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