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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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Resource-poor women farmers benefit by forming collectives
18.10.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
Collectives enhance productivity and improve livelihoods Poor and landless farmers can sustainably i…
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The rural woman – a powerful force that can drive global progress
17.10.20IITA joins the rest of the world to spotlight the people who feed the world—women.…
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Indian PM Narendra Modi dedicates two ‘healthy oil’ groundnut varieties on World Food Day
16.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Two groundnut varieties with high oleic acid content, developed by ICRISAT together with the Indian…
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Youth or Young mothers? The paradox of transitions in the rural women’s lives
16.10.20-
Gender equality
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Health
Year 2020 is a unique year. We have spent most of it ‘surprised’ by the…
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ICRISAT among 11 global ‘Hubs’ to accelerate the use of natural genetic diversity to advance crop improvement
16.10.20-
Food security
Using chickpea as the case species, one of the proposed 11 hubs of DivSeek International…
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Training researchers virtually when supplies can cross borders but people cannot
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Health
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, supplies can cross international borders, but the same…
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CGIAR Research Pays Off: New Report Finds 10 Times Return on Investment
16.10.20Investments in CGIAR research generate returns of 10 times the amount invested, a new report…
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Water and nutrition in a COVID-19 context: Where do we go from here?
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Environmental health
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Food security
Claudia Ringler is Deputy Director of IFPRI's Environment and Production Technology and a Co-Coordi…
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Eradicating poverty through science – consulting farmers early on
15.10.20Eradicating poverty through science – consulting farmers early on On International Day for the Era…
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DryArc – Time to Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together.
15.10.20DryArc – Time to Grow, Nourish, Sustain, Together. World Food Day is an opportunity to…
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Resilient rural women of the drylands
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Gender equality
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Health
Special Feature: International Day of Rural Women – October 15 Long before COVID constraints crept…
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The vital contribution of women to livelihoods resilience during COVID-19
15.10.20The vital contribution of women to livelihoods resilience during COVID-19 The 2020 International Day…
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International Day of Rural Women 2020
15.10.20How One CGIAR research is supporting rural women during times of crises Welcome to the…
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The Failing Food Systems: Can Aquatic Foods turn the tide?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Currently, 2 billion people around the world lack access to diverse, nutritious, and safe diets…
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How taking a systems approach to water will help to meet our future food needs
15.10.20-
Nutrition
On World Food Day, Dr. Mark Smith, Director General of the International Water Management Institute…
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Building a better future: How gender research supports rural women during times of crisis
15.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Gender research supports more equitable outcomes during and post-crisis, while helping to build more…
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What is sustainable intensification?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By 2050, the world’s population could grow to 9.7 billion, food demand is expected to…
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Breaking Ground: Isaiah Nyagumbo advances climate-smart technologies to improve smallholder farming systems
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Most small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa rely on rain-fed agriculture to sufficiently feed their fam…
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