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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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Global research effort sets the stage for an aquatic food future
14.10.21-
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Food systems account for half of the earth’s biocapacity and are responsible for 25 percent of…
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Harnessing the nourishing potential of aquatic foods in India
13.10.21-
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A panel of food and nutrition security experts discussed the benefits of sustainable aquatic foods…
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Fifty years of cassava breeding
12.10.21-
Food security
Kasetsart 50 is a progeny that would make any parent proud. KU 50, as it’s…
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Building climate resilience into Bangladesh's coastal communities
12.10.21-
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Around the world, aquatic food systems provide meaningful livelihoods for 60 million people and sust…
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Trial by pasta: new uses for traditional Ethiopian wheat varieties
11.10.21-
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The Alliance has joined with Ethiopian research partners and Italian pasta makers to explore a…
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Can Weather Index Insurance be a win for all?
11.10.21-
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Gender equality
Developing countries are already enduring the worst of climate change. Floods and droughts are impac…
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Machine hiring centers create jobs for youth while saving time, cost and labor for farmers
11.10.21-
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A farm machine-hiring center set up in two villages in South India is showing how…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
07.10.21-
Food security
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HIGHLIGHTS Researchers call for the integration of fisheries into rice systems and irrigation scheme…
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Alliance and FAO celebrate International Year for Fruits and Vegetables
07.10.21-
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To celebrate the International Year for Fruits and Vegetables, the Alliance teamed up with the…
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Heat shocks linked to lower maize yields and reduced child height: Evidence from Tanzania
05.10.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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BY STEVEN BLOCK,BELIYOU HAILE, LIANGZHI YOU AND DEREK HEADEY The growing threat that climate shocks…
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How does the Food Action Alliance (FAA), a global food systems initiative facilitated in Latin America by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, relate to United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
01.10.21-
Food security
By: Dylan Anderson-BerensPrevious blogs in this series introduced the Food Action Alliance (FAA), it…
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An Innovation Perspective to IFAD Impact Investments: How Ready is the Conservation Agriculture System in Moldova for Impact at Scale?
30.09.21-
Food security
The IFAD-funded 'Scaling Readiness of Conservation Agriculture System (CAS) in Moldova' study, cond…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
30.09.21-
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Two seminars convened by WorldFish, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Inte…
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Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance launches the Bean Atlas Version 2.0
29.09.21-
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Nutrition
Two decades after the Bean Atlas’ first publication, a new digital version has arrived. The…
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AGENT: an EU H2020 funded Project Delivers Universal Access to Genebank Information
28.09.21-
Food security
The EU-funded H2020 ‘Activated Genebank Network (AGENT)’ project aims to transform genebanks fr…
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Reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems a win for food and nutrition
28.09.21-
Environmental health
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While the world already produces 1.5 times the amount of food required to feed the…
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5 innovations reducing loss and waste in aquatic food systems
28.09.21-
Environmental health
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Around 35 percent of food harvested from the world’s aquatic food systems—fisheries and aquacult…
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Harnessing diversity within aquatic food systems is key to food and nutrition security
27.09.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Around the world, small-scale fisheries and aquaculture have an outsized impact on human health and…
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