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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
14.05.25<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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How contour bunding and other technologies can reduce soil erosion and raise productivity in African watersheds
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Environmental health
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Food security
Communities inhabiting Africa's drylands frequently suffer from torrential floods and recurrent drou…
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Tackling agricultural water pollution – a 21st-century challenge
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Agriculture is critical to the economies of developing countries. It is the basic source of…
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Low-tech solutions plus improved coordination for climate resilience in coastal Bangladesh
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Cyclone Amphan hit the coast of Bangladesh in May, and was followed in July by…
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CGIAR breeding programs need more than just tech upgrades. They need change management
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Food security
By Hugo Campos, CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) / International Potato Centre (CIP) The statu…
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Strengthening the orange-fleshed sweetpotato value chain in Malawi
14.09.20Simple processing is spreading the advantages of orange-fleshed sweetpotato, with benefits for farme…
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COVID-19: The virus will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not
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Nutrition
BY MARIE RUEL AND DEREK HEADEY As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and persist, disrupting…
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Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land-restoration strategy: under what conditions does it work?
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The upcoming 2021–2030 United Nations decade of restoration aims to accelerate efforts towards ach…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
14.09.20Photo: A combined physiological and transcriptomic approach provides insights into the molecular dyn…
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Increased funding support to AVISA to accelerate crop improvement and improve seed delivery systems
14.09.20Photo: Farmers from Mali next to their sorghum harvest (AVISA) One year after it began,…
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Building diverse and healthier diets for Africa’s growing population
11.09.20A healthy diet ensures adequate calories and nutrients—with a balanced, diversity of foods from se…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
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Biodiversity
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In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon…
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Increased funding support to AVISA to accelerate crop improvement and improve seed delivery systems
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Health
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Nutrition
One year after it began, Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals…
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Experts call on African countries to prioritize food safety in urban food markets
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Health
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa launched its 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report…
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Gendering migration: how straightforward is it?
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Drawing on the narratives of women and men who have domestic or international migration experience,…
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Multiple cropping could help feed the world
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global population and food demand are expected to increase considerably in the future. Solutions to…
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CIP research highlighted in WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020
10.09.20Released this week, the WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 features a piece on the International…
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Transforming African food systems for a resilient future
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing Director, Research Delivery and I…
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Strengthening the orange-fleshed sweetpotato value chain in Malawi
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Food security
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Gender equality
Simple processing is spreading the advantages of orange-fleshed sweetpotato, with benefits for farme…
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