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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
16.05.25-
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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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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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New study sheds light on early intensification of smallholder backyard poultry farming systems
01.07.20-
Food security
A new research study published in the journal Animal (24 June 2020) investigated early intensificati…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
30.06.20Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degr…
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Making livestock vaccination campaigns work for farmers in East Africa
30.06.20-
Health
Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute have published a study on the uptake …
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The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid-19 “food pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa
29.06.20-
Gender equality
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-19 appear to be intensifyi…
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Micronutrient status in the DR Congo: What to do when diet and blood measurements do and don’t align
29.06.20-
Health
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Nutrition
By Kristina Michaux and Erick Boy Deficiency of one or more micronutrients, particularly iron, vitam…
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WEBINAR: Merging ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance/finance: why we need it!
29.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this exciting webinar, held 19 June 2020, experts discussed the opportunities and challenges for…
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No hunger games
28.06.20-
Food security
Farmers are playing specially designed games intended to give them insights into the collective mana…
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Secret to on-off fertility discovered in pigeonpea
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids…
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Economic incentives to resolve conflicts in transboundary flows within watersheds: the case of the Cordilleras in the Philippines
26.06.20-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When it comes to property rights, many Philippine forests are open access. This means that…
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ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
Written by Ekta Patel & Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-b…
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Significant economic impacts due to COVID-19 and falling remittances in Myanmar
25.06.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By: Xinshen Diao and Michael Wang As COVID-19 spreads in more low- and middle-income countries,…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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From working in the fields to taking control
25.06.20-
Gender equality
Using data from 12 communities across four Indian states, an international team of researchers has…
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Policy seminar: What is needed for gender-sensitive COVID-19 responses in agriculture and food security?
25.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Khiem Nguyen COVID-19 is posing new challenges to efforts to promote women’s empowerment, threa…
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The critical role of women in avoiding a Covid-19 “food pandemic” in sub-Saharan Africa
25.06.20-
Gender equality
By Gaudiose Mujawamariya ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Jun 24 2020 (IPS) – As infections with Covid-…
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New research hub to coordinate CGIAR’s COVID-19 response
25.06.20-
Food security
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Health
A CGIAR COVID-19 Hub has been established to consolidate existing scientific evidence and help suppo…
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As COVID-19 fractures food systems, global experts issue roadmap to avert post-pandemic food shocks caused by climate change
25.06.20WAGENINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS (25 June 2020) – Influential voices from six continents present path …
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African small-scale mechanization project winds down after strong results
24.06.20-
Food security
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia have embraced small-scale mechanization thanks to an in…
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