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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Giving Africa’s new crop varieties a data boost digitally
19.01.21To increase adoption of new improved varieties in Africa, a webinar was recently organized under…
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Does improving food market access improve rural household nutritional outcome in developing countries?
19.01.21Diversification of farms is often advocated for bringing diet diversity to rural households and impr…
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Forest and landscape restoration: Beyond fixes that fail
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One of the challenges in managing tree resources is the long delay between planting efforts…
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Nutrition-sensitive approaches from pond to plate in Myanmar
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Looking at aquaculture through a nutrition lens is leading production and dietary shifts toward dive…
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Increased sustainability and research capacity for tilapia aquaculture in Zambia
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Aquaculture is currently the main consumer of global fishmeal production. Sustainability concerns in…
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The AsiaBlight Network Looks to the Future
18.01.21The post The AsiaBlight Network Looks to the Future appeared first on International Potato Cent…
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Improving the prospects for breeding better bananas
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Food security
Progressive heterobeltiosis for bunch weight in bred ‘Matooke’ banana hybrids (NARITAs), when gr…
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 2nd International Agrobiodiversity Congress
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Biodiversity
UPDATE: The Call for Abstracts is now closed. For the latest information on the 2nd…
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Gender equity in the food environment: Considerations for low- and middle-income countries
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Food security
To truly understand the role of gender and inequities in the food system, nutrition and…
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Digital nutrient management tool reduces emissions, improves crop yields and boosts farmers’ profits
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An international team of scientists, led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CI…
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A Place for Foresight and Trade-Offs
15.01.21As policymakers across the world grapple with the possible trade-offs from shutdowns to decrease wha…
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Developers unite around a common platform to liberate breeding data
14.01.21As public sector breeding has modernized, it has become a more data intensive enterprise. Numerous…
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Update on the CGIAR research response to COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health crisis and massive disruptions to economies and…
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CGIAR researchers share COVID-19 work from across the system
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One key function of the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub, established in July 2020, is to gather…
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WEF event: Building gender equitable food systems
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By SOKHNA SALL SECK Empowering women and girls and the recognition and respect of their…
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Forman Lecture: Ellen Piwoz’s playbook for the future of global nutrition
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BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN When Ellen Piwoz joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2007, th…
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Establishing guidelines and engaging stakeholders to promote high-oleic peanut value chain in India
12.01.21Demand for peanut oil in India is increasing and a dependable supply of quality seed…
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Young Malian researchers gear up for grand challenges with crop modeling
12.01.21UE-APSAN Mali project trains next generation of modeling experts Budding agricultural researchers ar…
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