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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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Better dietary options for healthier children
23.07.20-
Health
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Nutrition
In rural Malawi, over 16,000 people, including young children, have benefited from ‘Care Groups’…
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Soil health key priority for better livelihoods of Odisha farmers
23.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Under an extensive soil health mapping program in Odisha state, India, over 40,200 soil samples…
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Policy options to improve access to quality seed in Vietnam
22.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new paper examines Vietnam’s regulatory regime surrounding planting material of vegetatively pro…
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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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Policy options to improve access to quality seed in Vietnam
22.07.20-
Food security
Vietnam’s Plan for Zero Hunger by 2025 calls for increasing access to nutritious foods and…
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The State of the Literature on Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Intensification
22.07.20The projected increases in global demand for agricultural products over the coming decades – for…
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How and why to merge ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance?
22.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The pertinence of ecosystem-based adaption and risk finance couldn’t be more timely considering th…
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Indian diets fall short of EAT-Lancet reference recommendations for human and planetary health
21.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
By Manika Sharma, Avinash Kishore, Devesh Roy, Kuhu Joshi, and Khiem Nguyen Many developing countrie…
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How India’s agrifood supply chains fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, from farm to fork
20.07.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Sudha Narayanan Lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have disrupted food market…
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IITA and Bayer launch modern breeding project
20.07.20Yield improvement of important African food crops will get a boost with the launch of…
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Expert-assisted Decision Analysis supports agroforestry in Viet Nam
20.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Selecting appropriate practices for specific locations that are aligned with the needs, values and p…
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New groundnut variety with high oil, high pod yields released in central India
20.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Photo: Dr Shrikant L Sawargonkar, IGKV, observing state multilocation trials in Raipur (2019). ICRIS…
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A library for understanding the soils of the world
19.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
New soil spectral library addresses global food supply through advanced soil analysis. A breakthroug…
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How tech and modern market mechanisms can solve water scarcity in post-Soviet states
18.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
Uzbekistan is an incredibly dry country, receiving an annual rainfall of just 100 to 300…
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Understanding Nairobi’s urban agriculture sector helps to enhance equality and climate resilience
18.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Food makes up almost half of trading in the vibrant informal sector of Kenya's capital…
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How to feed a growing global population in the midst of a climate crisis
17.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
We have all heard the figures: by 2050, the world’s population is expected to increase…
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New IFAD/CGIAR note on Gender and Pastoralism: Issues to consider, tools to use
17.07.20-
Gender equality
Women’s participation in community governance and local development is often limited by patriarcha…
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Three ways nuclear sciences can assist agriculture research
17.07.20-
Food security
The exponential growth of food demand, due to the increase of the world's population, has…
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