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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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Big data
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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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 search of effective support for agricultural mechanization in Africa
30.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY HIROYUKI TAKESHIMA, XINSHEN DIAO AND PATRICK OHENE ABOAGYE First of a series of blog…
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How to ensure access to healthy diets for all: a clarion call for One CGIAR
30.10.20-
Nutrition
Guest blog by Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) At …
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Breaking Ground: Andrea Gardeazábal transforms data into meaningful information
29.10.20-
Big data
Andrea Gardeazábal has many titles — Monitor, Evaluation and Learning Manager, ICT for Agricultur…
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Growing cities, growing food insecurity: How to protect the poor during rapid urbanization
29.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL The 2020 State of Food and Nutrition Security in the World (SOFI) estimates that…
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Cameroon’s “Bean Sharer”
28.10.20After learning about the benefits of improved bean varieties, one woman has singlehandedly taken up…
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Groundwater: Critical for our future
28.10.20-
Environmental health
Groundwater makes up one-third of all freshwater use for drinking water supply and half of…
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Reflections on resilience
27.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Most of us here were born and raised in this ward, helping our parents with…
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Behavior change communication in conflict zones: Program leads to improved breastfeeding and water treatment practices in Yemen
27.10.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY SIKANDRA KURDI AND SARAH EDWARDS In the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, a child…
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Young people in Niger explore different forms of agriculture for a better future
27.10.20Photo: Fruit tree nursery in the commune of Bande, Zinder, Niger. (B Traore, ICRISAT) nterprises…
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Shining a Brighter Light on Adoption and Diffusion of CGIAR-Related Innovations in Ethiopia
27.10.20Taking a Country-Level Approach to Documenting Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia Shi…
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Can citizen science help to fill hydrology data gaps in Ethiopia?
27.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IWMI conducted a qualitative study to investigate the possibilities of embedding a citizen science a…
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CIMMYT releases its first ever maize genetic resource lines
26.10.20The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the release o…
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Fodder chopping machines lead to a thriving livestock feed enterprise in rural Niger
26.10.20Fodder chopping machines are proving to be a great help to livestock farmers in rural…
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COVID-19 crisis: An opportunity for long-delayed agricultural reforms in India
26.10.20-
Food security
BY S. MAHENDRA DEV India’s COVID-19 economic relief package includes a set of important agricultur…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving household food security and diet quality in Burundi
26.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY JEF L. LEROY, DEANNA K. OLNEY, MARIE RUEL, LILIA BLIZNASHKA AND TRACY BROWN Fourth…
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Beyond breeding: the potential of improved postharvest storage techniques for smallholder farmers
23.10.20-
Food security
In the early days of organizations like the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMY…
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Young people in Niger explore different forms of agriculture for a better future
23.10.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over 150 rural youth in Niger joined an entrepreneur incubation program, participating in their firs…
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Fodder chopping machines lead to a thriving livestock feed enterprise in rural Niger
23.10.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Fodder chopping machines are proving to be a great help to livestock farmers in rural…
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