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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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In the Spotlight: Bernadette Fregene
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Bernadette Fregene is WorldFish’s aquaculture compact leader and a professor of aquaculture and fi…
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Science for all: Building a gender-inclusive future in the sciences
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gender-inclusive participation in the sciences allows both men and women to fully benefit from advan…
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Building Commercial Standards to Boost Trade in Nutrient Enriched Crops
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Food security
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In every step of commercial supply chains, purchasers look to standards to ensure that suppliers…
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RTB pushes for gender-responsive technology design and deployment
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Gender equality
Women in smallholder farm households do much of the work on roots, tubers and bananas.…
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Better Data on Agricultural Innovations: A Journey Into the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey
10.02.21The CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) has recently released “Shining a Brighter Lig…
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Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate
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Launched by The Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith, UK Minister for Pacific and the Environment at FCDO and…
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Breeding scientists are women of their word
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Gender equality
If you had to choose one word that symbolizes “women in science,” what would it…
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Lightbulb moments
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Gender equality
The challenges facing our food system are growing, both in size and in complexity. In…
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Does bottom-up monitoring improve public services? What we found in Uganda
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Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT AND CAROLINE MIEHE In many developing countries, poor delivery of public…
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Reviving the pulse in food security
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World Pulses Day, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations,…
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Launch of first digital catalog of cassava varieties from Cauca, Colombia
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Biodiversity
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, the French Agricultural Research Center for Inter…
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Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’
09.02.21Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health cris…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
09.02.21ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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CGIAR webinar unleashes multidisciplinary approach to climate change and plant health
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Environmental health
Evidence of enormity and immediacy of the challenges climate change poses for life on earth…
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How women’s empowerment can expand crop diversification as a climate adaptation strategy in Bangladesh
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
BY ELIZABETH BRYAN, ALEX DE PINTO, GREG SEYMOUR, PRAPTI BHANDARY AND FRANCESCA EDRALIN Bangladesh’…
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Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes
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Environmental health
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Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Manage…
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Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s ‘hunger pandemic’
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Food security
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Health
Vaccination efforts across the globe encourage hope of an imminent end to the COVID-19 health…
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Two women-led food processing units opened in India
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT’s training and capacity building program empowers women from tribal communities of Telanga…
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