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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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Double harvest for half the effort
21.08.20-
Food security
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Peter Mwangofi is a pigeonpea farmer from Karonga district in Malawi. He relies on the…
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Tackling drought with pro-vitamin A sweetpotato in Africa
20.08.20Over the last decade, sweetpotato has gradually become increasing more common and important in the…
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Lessons for gender in seed systems
20.08.20Seed systems are complex and dynamic, involving diverse, interdisciplinary actors. Women play an imp…
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Harnessing aquatic foods research is vital to COVID-19 recovery, sustainable food systems transformation, say agriculture for development experts
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The role of aquatic foods in COVID-19 recovery and the sustainable food system transformation demand…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
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Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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The Role of Climate and Food Systems Science in Conflict Prevention and Peace-building
19.08.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Written by Nam Nguyen and Diego Osorio. Image credit: Tobin Jones/UN Photo CGIAR FOCUS Climate…
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Tree roots reduce landslide risk
19.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Researchers in Indonesia provide evidence of suitability of tree species in preventing landslides. &…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
19.08.20Photo: File photo of Dr Mamta Sharma and her team at work in the pathogen…
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Former CIP board member and scientist appointed vice minister in Peru
18.08.20The International Potato Center (CIP) welcomes the appointment of Dr Alberto Maurer as Vice Minister…
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The missing link between maize seeds and trust
18.08.20The world population is expected to rise to almost 10 billion by 2050. To feed…
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Making sense of why spouses disagree in household surveys
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Gender equality
BY KATE AMBLER, CHERYL DOSS, CAITLIN KIERAN AND SIMONE PASSARELLI With women’s empowerment an i…
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Legumes grow money: success script of seed systems in Malawi
18.08.20Photo: Groundnut seed production improved Gertrude Ngoma and her family’s food security and income…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
18.08.20Photo: Pod and kernels of ICGV 06189. Photo: Dr Babu Motagi, UASD A superior export-quality…
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Book launch: COVID-19 and global food security - what have we learned so far?
17.08.20-
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Health
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post is based on remarks delivered during the Aug. 4 launch event for the…
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How many trees does a healthy watershed need?
17.08.20-
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Environmental health
Indonesian spatial-planning law prescribes that every district needs to have 30% forest cover to sec…
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Digital defenses: Can high-tech insurance flood-proof vulnerable farmers?
14.08.20-
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When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. This was…
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Soil-borne pathogen new to chickpea growing regions in India detected
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A soil-borne pathogen, new to chickpea growing regions in India, was detected during a real-time…
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Bigger, bolder, high-yielding confectionery groundnut variety released in Karnataka, India
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A superior export-quality confectionery groundnut variety that comes with a higher benefit-cost rati…
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