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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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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Borderline
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Ghana - Part VII of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
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Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Advocating for livestock, say its supporters, requires stronger narratives as well as robust evidence
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Gender equality
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Mary Nzomo, the chair of Kenya’s Agriculture County Executive Committee Members Caucus, holding th…
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Farmers in Tanzania urged to embrace drought tolerant crops
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Against the backdrop of changing climatic conditions in Africa, scientists, administrators and seed …
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Reversing ‘dangerous decline’ of nature requires global initiatives to engage both men and women
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Our planet is in the midst of an ecological emergency, according to several recent reports. Deter…
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Agroforestry at 40: how tree-farm science has changed the world
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Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.Morley Read/Shutterstock Meine van N…
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Greater than the sum of its parts – highlighting how CGIAR is working as one
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Claudia Sadoff, director general of the International Water Management Institute (left) visits a glo…
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Evidence from Malawi: Why agricultural and nutrition education programs should engage both women and men in households
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Gender norms and inequalities are an important factor in Malawi’s ongoing food security problems. …
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Balangiga Farmer – Fisherfolk women learn how to make food products from dried cassava grates
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Who knew so many different products could be made from cassava? Now thanks to the…
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Study: India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme has positive impact on participants’ welfare
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India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) is one of the largest public works prog…
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Giving and taking between husband, wives, and co-wives
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Over 40% of women in many West African countries are in polygynous marriages—the practice of ha…
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More research on African swine fever is urgently needed: No cure, no vaccine and no treatment yet exists for this lethal pig disease
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Pigs at the commerical drestry farm industry (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann) African swine fever …
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Women and youth as catalysts of climate-smart agriculture in Cambodia
29.04.19-
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In developing countries, societal roles and economic constraints can restrict women and youth to cer…
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Emerging scientist: Surendran Rajaratnam
15.04.19-
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Understanding why people do what they do and what they can do differently to improve…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
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This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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"It is no longer a question of why we are incorporating gender, but really a question of how." - WLE/IWMI at Seeds of Change
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“What kinds of seeds are we sowing? What kind of change are we anticipating? And…
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Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier
09.04.19-
Gender equality
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Cash transfers are promising interventions to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but more evide…
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