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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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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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Farmer cooperatives across West and Central Africa help expand access to improved seeds, boosting yields
10.07.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A farmers’ cooperative in Mali has experienced a significant increase in production of quality see…
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Malian farmer sets an example as a successful seed producer
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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Farmer field schools in Mali are not only training local farmers in best practices for…
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Women and youth turning to tree-based enterprises for livelihoods in Mount Elgon, Uganda
10.07.20-
Gender equality
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In the Mount Elgon region, women and youth comprise a critical labour force for farming.…
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Small is beautiful
09.07.20-
Food security
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Can Africa’s smallholder farmers adopt and reap the benefits of farm mechanization? The Farm Mecha…
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Field Notes: Nigeria’s fish processors call for government support to stay afloat during COVID-19 crisis
07.07.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As Nigeria’s fish processors struggle to manage disruptions caused by COVID-19 lockdowns, they are…
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Field Notes: Call for government support as lockdown bites into fish processors’ profits in India
07.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lockdown restrictions in India have hit fish processors at the peak of their season and…
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Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19
02.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Maximo Torero The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, and in many…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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WEBINAR: Merging ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance/finance: why we need it!
29.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this exciting webinar, held 19 June 2020, experts discussed the opportunities and challenges for…
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Economic incentives to resolve conflicts in transboundary flows within watersheds: the case of the Cordilleras in the Philippines
26.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When it comes to property rights, many Philippine forests are open access. This means that…
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Significant economic impacts due to COVID-19 and falling remittances in Myanmar
25.06.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By: Xinshen Diao and Michael Wang As COVID-19 spreads in more low- and middle-income countries,…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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A video is worth a million sweetpotato vines
22.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer-to-farmer training videos create demand for orange fleshed sweetpotatoes (OFSP) and high-qual…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
17.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Women-Led Biofortified Food Businesses: Advancing Nutrition and Health
16.06.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
HarvestPlus is proud to be working with enterprising women around the world who have created…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19. Impacts on aquaculture and fisheries
15.06.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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MYSAP Inland supports small-scale fish farmers and fish processors during COVID-19
15.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the Central Dry Zone and upper regions of Myanmar, since April 2017, the Inland…
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