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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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Children’s TV series promotes gender equality and fish-based nutrition in Bangladesh
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A new children’s TV series promoting fish-based nutrition, gender equality, and women’s involvem…
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FAO declaration supports sustainable aquatic food systems
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Over 190 countries made a formal commitment to sustainable and inclusive aquatic food systems at…
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Inland fisheries critical for nourishing young children in sub-Saharan Africa, study reveals
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Inland fisheries are critical to supplying children with the nutritious, diverse diets required for …
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An agri-food system innovation in Kenya? Will smallholders be the winners?
22.02.21Major food policy changes are underway in Kenya that could mean that sorghum and millets…
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Well-designed strategy drives pearl millet mainstreaming nutrition initiative
22.02.21A well-designed strategy currently being implemented to develop pearl millet lines that are both hig…
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How crop innovation is addressing the impact of the climate crisis in Africa
21.02.21In a just-published op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvemen…
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1.15 Million Children, 122,472 communities, 57 countries, 30 years: New dataset combines Demographic Health Surveys with geographic information systems
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Nutrition
BY ZHE GUO, WAHID QUABILI, LIANGZHI YOU AND DEREK HEADEY Research on the linkages between…
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A4NH releases strategic briefs highlighting key program achievements, lessons learned
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Throughout its 11-year history, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (…
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2021 Summit of the Americas: At a precarious moment, an opportunity for a bold regional agenda
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In the second half of this year, the United States will host the Summit of…
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Build trust, build lives…
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“Farmers thought we were coming to steal their money!” Microfinance specialist Lamine Sountoura …
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Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: How an upland watershed got its groundwater back
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The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down,…
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Towards smart farming in Ethiopia: sharing experiences for successful adaptation of small-scale irrigation and value chain assessment
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Members of the Alliance’s Multifunctional Landscapes Team report on recent capacity-building exper…
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Remembering the life and legacy of Sanjaya Rajaram
18.02.21With great sorrow, we report the passing of Sanjaya Rajaram, former Wheat Program director and…
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Morocco’s Wheat Sector: Higher Productivity is Within Reach
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A recent study by ICARDA scientists analyzed Morocco’s wheat sector, a strategic crop that is…
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Achieving sustainable agricultural practices: From incentives to adoption and outcomes
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The pressure to achieve global food security demands that we rethink current production systems and…
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Policy seminar: Rebuilding food and agricultural research institutions in a post-pandemic world
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BY HONOR DEARLOVE The COVID-19 pandemic presents new challenges to publicly-funded food and agricult…
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Young Africa Works-IITA commences multilocation training for 40,000 youth
16.02.21The Young Africa Works-IITA project commenced the first cohort of its training program in Lagos,…
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Banana breeding project successfully implements modern track and trace system
16.02.21Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice…
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