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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-
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
14.05.25Amidst 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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On the need for expanding sustainability frameworks and veterinary vision in developing countries
24.04.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Divine bovine, painting by Karen Bezuidenhout. A new science paper argues for broadening traditional…
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‘Living tools’ at the frontier of vaccine development—A Keystone Symposium workshop by Vish Nene
20.04.18-
Health
Health for Animals and the World Veterinary Association launched the first annual World Animal Vacci…
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Using cognitive testing to improve measurement of women’s empowerment in nutrition and health
10.04.18-
Health
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Nutrition
In this blog post, Anika Hannan, a soon-to-be MPH graduate from Emory University, discusses cogniti…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving child growth in Burundi
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Health
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) progra…
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InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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Health
UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…
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Workshop with German partners to mobilize resources for joint research to improve animal and human health
21.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Collaboration between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and German partners date…
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Agrilinks hosts month-long focus on food safety
16.03.18-
Food security
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Health
Fish market in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (photo credit: WorldFish/Jamie Oliver). Agrilinks is an onlin…
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The ANH Academy Week is back in Africa! Accra, Ghana, 25-29 June 2018
13.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Registration will open soon for the third annual ANH Academy Week and, having attended the…
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Harvest time Nigeria! Aflasafe moves from research to nationwide commercialisation to protect food from deadly aflatoxin
12.03.18-
Health
Today, Africa’s most populous nation – Nigeria – takes a giant stride forward in the…
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How women’s empowerment shapes children’s schooling, nutrition
09.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Improvements in the status of women has often been shown to have positive impacts on…
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Lora Iannotti on livestock and animal-source foods at Berlin’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
06.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Lora Iannotti, associate dean for public health at the Brown School at Washington University, in St…
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Webinar: Cash transfer programs and Intimate Partner Violence – Lessons from 3 case studies around the globe
05.03.18-
Gender equality
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Health
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most pervasive form of violence globally—with 1 in 3…
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Precision geospatial analysis highlights development gaps – now we need precision solutions
02.03.18-
Health
March 2, 2018 IFPRI Blog Purnima Menon Precision geospatial analysis highlights development gaps –…
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First zinc maize variety launched to reduce malnutrition in Colombia
01.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
A new zinc-enriched maize variety was released in Colombia on February 23 to help combat…
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Germany and ILRI intensify scientific cooperation to protect consumer health in Africa and Europe
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Food security
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Health
BfR Nairobi workshop participants (photo credit: BfR). BfR, Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk A…
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Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn on street vending (All Africa)
30.01.18-
Health
Jan 30, 2018 In the News Politics in the time of cholera: Zambia’s U-turn…
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Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Across Health, Development, and Environment
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Environmental health
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Health
Oct 25, 2017 Press Release Global Alliance Releases New Tools to Guide Evidence-based Solutions Acro…
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