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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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The geometry of disease: A longitudinal calf cohort study in Kenya has yielded a unique database and biorepository
10.09.20-
Big data
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Health
Fun with Lines and Curves by Elsie C. Ellison, 1972 (binding illustration). The IDEAL project,…
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Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children
09.09.20-
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Nutrition
Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tade…
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Improving governance of trees can better conserve biodiversity
09.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated clearing of forests are…
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Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on…
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Call for applications for Joint PhD Program WUR, CGIAR and SIPRI on climate security
08.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are looking for Wageningen University and Research (WUR), CGIAR, and the Stockholm International …
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Elevating women’s role to improve food systems
08.09.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Women play a vital role in growing, processing and marketing food in developing countries, yet…
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New alliance for better dairy animal nutrition in Kenya will work to advance ‘human nutrition, success and progress’
08.09.20-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lilian Satia, a young dairy entrepreneur in Nakuru, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/Georgina Smith). Yeste…
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Launch of CGIAR Gender Platform highlighted at African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)
08.09.2007 September, Rwanda -- Women’s preferences, realities, and ambitions have rarely been at the fore…
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CGIAR launches Excellence in Agronomy 2030 to improve outcomes for smallholder farmers amidst climate change
08.09.2007 September, Rwanda -- Over 300 million smallholder farmers in developing countries bear the brunt…
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Latin America learning how much carbon can be stored in grazing land
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices, which incorporate trees into graz…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
05.09.20-
Health
In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin are among the highest in the world, owing…
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Supermarketization is not the only strategy to enhance food safety in China
05.09.20-
Health
In a new paper, the author explores how supermarketization of China's vegetable sector has impacted…
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How long do seeds live? A 100-year experiment in the Arctic to reveal the secret
04.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Genebanks of six global research institutions including ICRISAT have begun a 100-year experiment at …
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20 years of ASTI: The go-to source for data and analyses on agricultural research in developing countries
04.09.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY NIENKE BEINTEMA This year marks the 20th anniversary of ASTI, which provides open-source data, a…
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The world needs to learn how to live with COVID-19, says UK public health expert David Heymann
03.09.20-
Health
A 3-D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, developed by ILRI digital communications specialist Annabel Sla…
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Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations to scaling
03.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Integrating trees in farming and pastoral landscapes – agroforestry is one of the most effective…
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CIP uses social media to distribute more sweetpotato in Bangladesh
03.09.20An International Potato Center project (CIP) in Bangladesh is making creative use of technology and…
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Exploring farmer adoption of conservation agriculture using a lab-in-the-field approach
02.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY MIKE MURPHY, KATE AMBLER AND ALAN DE BRAUW Climate change poses a significant threat to livelih…
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