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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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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
14.05.25<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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Unique partnership to transform maize breeding and production in Africa
26.08.20Scientists part of the Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) and the Maize Lethal Necrosis…
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Policy seminar: Unpacking the impacts of COVID-19 on economies, food systems, and poverty in African and Asian countries
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EVGENIYA ANISIMOVA Countries around the world have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by implemen…
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Improving Biosecurity: A Science-Based Approach to Manage Fish Disease Risks and Increase Socioeconomic Contribution
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Environmental health
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Health
Nigeria is now one of Africa’s largest aquaculture producers with catfish (Clarias spp. and Hete…
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Data collection in a diverse and complex food system
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Food security
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Nutrition
IFPRI’s objectives in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are to strengthen data collection and analysis to…
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Supermarket contracts boost incomes and reduce multidimensional poverty for smallholders in Kenya
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Gender equality
BY DENNIS O. OCHIENG AND EMILY WU As food systems in developing countries change rapidly, one…
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The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
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Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Written by Alexandra Krendelsberger and Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CGIAR CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security…
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Double harvest for half the effort
25.08.20Photo: Peter Mwangofi tending his pigeonpea crop. Photo: ICRISAT, Malawi Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonp…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
25.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the webinar. India has made good progress in blending bioethanol with gasoline…
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Five-year plan for driving grain legume and dryland cereals seed delivery systems through commodity value chains
25.08.20For those seeking to create a win-win for farmers, marketers and consumers of grain legumes…
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Policy seminar: COVID-19, food systems, ecosystems, and the risk of zoonotic diseases
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
BY HOPE ZABRONSKY The COVID-19 pandemic—which originated when the novel coronavirus jumped from an…
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Embracing change: CGIAR issues response to MOPAN assessment
24.08.20In May of this year, the Multilateral Organisation Performance Assessment Network (MOPAN) released i…
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What does it take to change the Earth? India’s National Agroforestry Policy and beyond
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 2014, India became the first country in the world to adopt a national agroforestry policy.…
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A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
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Nutrition
Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a…
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New forms of aquatic foods: Exploring plant-based and cell-based seafood
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Seafood, including aquatic animals, like fish and crustaceans, and plants such as seaweeds, are cruc…
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Project to develop Aflasafe technology that controls deadly aflatoxin in Uganda launched
23.08.20Kampala, Uganda – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the National Agr…
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Which varieties of roots, tubers, and bananas do farmers and other users want in Africa, and how can breeding programs meet their needs better?
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Food security
It is critical to know which varieties are being adopted and why, both to show the value of in…
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Five-year plan for driving Grain Legume and Dryland Cereals seed delivery systems through commodity value chains
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For those seeking to create a win-win for farmers, marketers and consumers of grain legumes…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
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Biodiversity
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Health
ICRISAT’s efforts in feedstocks development appreciated on World Biofuel Day India has made good p…
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