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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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Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 the recipe for a cascading disaster
10.06.20-
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In the immediate aftermath of Amphan, access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is…
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How can food loss and waste reduction best deliver climate benefits?
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Our food systems are failing us, and a new report from the Transforming Food Systems…
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Giving voice to the voiceless: How COVID-19 is impacting Nairobi slum residents, in their own words
09.06.20COVID-19 has only further complicated the challenge of feeding growing cities across Africa and the…
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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online
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The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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Recently published research captures the potential of sustainable seafood commoditization under a new conceptual framework.
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9 June 2020 - PENANG, MALAYSIA - new research published in Nature Sustainability, introduces the co…
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Ethiopia to grow 5 billion trees in the Second Green Legacy Campaign
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Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed launched the Second Green Legacy Campaign on 5 June 2020,…
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The powerful alliance between integrated science and traditional food systems
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The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collec…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19 and food security implications
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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COVID19 – Work in shifts, researchers advise yam seed producers and farmers
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To reduce the spread of COVID-19, governments all over the world have instituted specific measures …
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Late blight resistant potatoes in Uganda promise impressive returns
08.06.20Potato is a popular crop in Uganda with great potential for income generation and improving…
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Megatrends, Shocks, Foresight, and Trade-offs: The Importance to One CGIAR
08.06.20This blog coincides with the launch of the ISDC 2020 foresight and trade-off project. COVID-19…
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WorldFish celebrates World Oceans Day
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This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of…
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Agroecology and Natural Farming Could Accelerate Inclusive Economic Growth in India
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International experts in a convention organized on 29 May by NITI Aayog endorsed efforts to…
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Ensia: COVID-19 is telling us that it’s time for global systems change – starting with water
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COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized…
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IFPRI: Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
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Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, w…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
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The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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How dryland crops are helping Telangana’s tribal households meet nutritional requirements during lockdown
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To ensure nutrition sufficiency in children, pregnant women and lactating mothers of tribal communit…
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Measuring farm households’ vulnerability and resilience to climate shocks now possible, new research shows
08.06.20A farmer on his parched land in India. Photo: L Vidyasagar, ICRISAT A household’s vulnerability…
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