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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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Launch of AfricaRice Annual Report 2019: Toward rice-based food systems transformation in Africa
02.09.20-
Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 2 September 2020 - At a time when the need for a…
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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?
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Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN…
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Initial Research Highlights Importance of Irrigation for Ethiopian Farmers During COVID-19
02.09.20-
Food security
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Agriculture sustains the Ethiopian economy, and access to irrigation here is critical for food secur…
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Improving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do
01.09.20-
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Health
Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit:…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
01.09.20Photo (ICRISAT): Forage variety pearl millet on the research field (left) and farmer’s field (righ…
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Coming together as One CGIAR: New CGIAR System Board membership announced
01.09.20CGIAR announced today the voting member composition of the board of the CGIAR System Organization,…
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The challenges of influencing consumer behavior to improve food safety
31.08.20-
Food security
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Health
BY VIVIAN HOFFMANN AND EMILY WU In Kenya, levels of exposure to aflatoxin—a contaminant produced …
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Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America
31.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
When fall armyworm first arrived on the African continent in 2016, the potential loss of…
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Potato diversity leads to economic gain in Uganda
29.08.20The genebank of the International Potato Centre (CIP) holds more than 6000 accessions of potatoes a…
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Network makes headway in strengthening gender research at IITA
29.08.20The gender science network at IITA has made significant progress in its efforts to enhance…
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Early adopter of YIIFSWA-promoted improved yam varieties enjoys “fantastic” yield
29.08.20Beaming with pride, Chief Joshua Ojedele showed off his 2-hectare yam field cultivated from improved…
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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?
29.08.20-
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Nutrition
All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
28.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Two pearl millet varieties with 7.0% and 5.4% higher green forage yields as compared to…
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Genetic molecular markers to accelerate genetic gains in crops
28.08.20-
Gender equality
Dr Rajeev Varshney from the Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology, ICRISAT, sheds…
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Potato diversity leads to economic gain in Uganda
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
The genebank of the International Potato Centre (CIP) holds more than 6000 accessions of potatoes…
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High altitudes linked to higher rates of stunting
27.08.20-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KALEAB BAYE, KALLE HIRVONEN AND EMILY WU Child stunting affects nearly 155 million globally, on…
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Which tree, where in Nepal? Mapping for the national agroforestry policy
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers have used different geospatial datasets of land, soil, climate and topography to model, …
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Sustainable Finance for Peace
27.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CIAT CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security explores the role of…
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