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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Agricultural intensification has fed the world, but are we healthier?
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Grow more food on less land? Agricultural intensification has intuitive appeal. The Earth has a…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change
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A new report by the Lancet Commission on the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and…
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The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change
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A new report by the Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Clim…
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Sehgal Foundation and Smart Food align to intensify efforts
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sehgal Foundation is aligning some big initiatives with the Smart Food Endowment Fund to help crea…
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FAO sets the record straight–86% of livestock feed is inedible by humans
28.01.19-
Food security
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Cow Jar, by Jean Dubuffet, 1943. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’…
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
27.01.19-
Food security
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Artworks by Austrian artist August Walla. As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health dietâ…
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
26.01.19-
Food security
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Illustrations by (left to right): Hiroko Yoshimoto, Ranganath Krishnamani, Yusuke Yonezu III. The …
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With huge variations in meat consumption, we’re ‘all in this existential crisis together’—Vox
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‘Eating more plant-based burgers could help us avoid environmental catastrophe, according to a new…
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Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
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Environmental health
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Farmers can soon access finger millet varieties that not only withstand drought but are also…
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Should we eat red meat? Depends on who’s eating—New York Times
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Left to right: Figure of an under-nourished individual (by The Twin Project), illustration of red…
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Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
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Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
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Can governments promote homestead gardening at scale? The case of Ethiopia
17.01.19-
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Eating fruits and vegetables can help ensure adequate nutrition and reduce the risk of heart…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
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Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Tackling the double burden of malnutrition: Time to innovate!
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Nutrition
A flagship program of the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health is…
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Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali
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Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable …
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Three new UN resolutions focus on plant health, pulses and food safety
28.12.18-
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The United Nations General Assembly has declared two new ‘International Days’ and one ‘Year’…
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Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes
24.12.18-
Food security
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Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and…
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