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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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-
Big data
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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Predicting economic impact from restoring forests and landscapes: lessons from Ethiopia
15.03.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
In a world where the well-being of 3.2 billion people is undermined by the degradation…
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Shared waters and data exchange – the gap between principle and practice
15.03.21-
Environmental health
Exchanging data across borders in transboundary basins is key to averting disasters, managing risks,…
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A knowledge revolution
12.03.21The key to transforming food production systems globally lies in knowledge management processes, acc…
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Collective effort, irrespective of gender, need of the day for better, safer workplaces for women
12.03.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Gender parity cannot be achieved by putting the onus of it on one gender; joint…
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Special training sessions initiated for young women and hearing-impaired youth in Ghana
12.03.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To unlock the potential of youth in agriculture, we need targeted, inclusive interventions that appe…
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Creating a team of young scientists equipped with tech tools to fight pests and diseases
12.03.21-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A recent workshop on pest and disease modeling for crops was conducted for young scientists…
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Study Shows Biofortified Maize Improves Vitamin A Content of Breast Milk
11.03.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new study shows that eating maize biofortified with vitamin A increased the levels of this impo…
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Dinavance Kyomuhendo: A Self-Made Entrepreneur and Biofortification Champion from Uganda
11.03.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Dinavance Kyomuhendo, 43, from the Nalweyo sub-county in the Kakumiro district, Uganda, is a single…
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Africa’s processed food revolution and the double burden of malnutrition
11.03.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SWATI MALHOTRA AND ROB VOS In recent decades, economic growth in Africa south of…
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Low-cost technology boosts women’s livelihoods amidst pandemic in Bangladesh
11.03.21-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Through disruption to aquatic food value chains, the COVID-19 pandemic has jeopardized the livelihoo…
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The invisible generation holding the key to Africa’s future food security
10.03.21-
Gender equality
authored by Esther Njuguna-Mungai This op-ed was first published by AllAfrica.com on March 8, 2021.…
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To close its labor gender gap, India must address its data gap
10.03.21-
Gender equality
authored by Ranjitha Puskur This op-ed was first published by Al Jazeera on March 8,…
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Power steering
10.03.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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New approaches to breed more inclusive crop varieties
09.03.21-
Gender equality
New crop varieties can help farmers thrive in difficult agricultural conditions, feed families and c…
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Banking on indigenous seed: investing in a healthier future
09.03.21-
Nutrition
Vihiga, Kenya: researchers and farmers have established a community seedbank to cultivate traditiona…
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‘Bringing a change’ in women’s equitable involvement in aquaculture
09.03.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This blogpost highlights 2020 research outputs of the WorldFish gender theme as part of the…
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The transformative value of maize
08.03.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The state of Odisha, in the east of India, ranks sixth in rice production in…
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