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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
14.05.25<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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Diet diversification program for tribal women and children to be scaled up in South India
23.10.20-
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Nutrition
Enthused by positive nutritional outcomes among children and women in its first phase, activities of…
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Community-based training on milk hygiene improves knowledge, attitudes and practices of women pastoralists in Borana, Ethiopia
23.10.20-
Health
Milk and milk products are essential in the diets of the Borana pastoral community in…
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Survey: China’s small and medium-sized enterprises rebounded after the COVID-19 lockdown, but economic problems linger
22.10.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XIAOBO ZHANG COVID-19 has made the issue of resilience of the world’s food supply…
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On World Food Day, India PM Modi Endorses Biofortification to Address Malnutrition
22.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a strong endorsement to staple crop biofortification a…
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Webinar reveals approaches for breeders to save time and money, cut waste – and deliver for clients
22.10.20-
Food security
How can breeders and other researcher programs continually improve their processes and products? An…
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Book launch: Casting light on the ‘Invisible China’
22.10.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY TIMOTHY KAROFF “There is a familiar China that most people know,” write Scott Rozelle and …
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Asia-Pacific Region – Launching the Roadmaps Process
22.10.20The third Asia-Pacific Forest Sector Outlook Study (FAO, 2019) highlighted two important areas for…
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Somalia agriculture partners learn about integrated fall armyworm control practices
21.10.20-
Food security
Fall armyworm continues to cause havoc in Africa. Farmers in Somalia have not been spared…
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Experts see a bright future for biofortification through improved delivery
21.10.20A new paper released at the 2020 World Food Prize today charts important progress in…
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Disinfecting equipment keeps agricultural production running in Bangladesh
20.10.20As with other industries in the country, most light engineering workshops in Bangladesh closed at…
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Book launch: Agricultural extension evolves to address a rapidly changing world
20.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN Through its programs that educate farmers and apply scientific research in the…
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WUR and CGIAR working together to equip future researchers, managers and leaders to address challenges in multifunctional foodscapes
20.10.20-
Food security
The current pandemic is proving the urgent need to find more inclusive, holistic, sustainable and…
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Five lessons on how to encourage open sharing of standardized data for sustainable agricultural growth
20.10.20-
Food security
Standardized data on agronomic traits - from soil types to weather patterns - can power…
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ICRISAT among 11 global ‘Hubs’ to accelerate the use of natural genetic diversity to advance crop improvement
20.10.20Using chickpea as the case species, one of the proposed 11 hubs of DivSeek International…
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Youth or Young mothers? the paradox of transitions in the rural women’s lives
20.10.202020 is a unique year. We have spent most of it ‘surprised’ by the turn…
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CGIAR focus on gene editing crops for a food and income secure future
20.10.20“The vision of CGIAR breeding is to have world-class breeding programs to have CGIAR-and National…
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Resilient rural women of the drylands
20.10.20Long before COVID constraints crept in, ‘resilience’ was and is the operative word for agri-food…
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Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day
20.10.20-
Food security
Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…
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