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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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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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Two ILRI-affiliated postdoctoral scientists receive Soulsby Fellowships for One Health research
24.06.20-
Health
Lisa Cavalerie and Mark Nanyingi, postdoctoral scientists affiliated with the International Livestoc…
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To counter COVID-19 in Nepal, we must support small-scale women farmers
24.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
COVID 19 has exposed the deeply embedded social and economic inequalities in human societies. The…
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Modeling the impacts of new policies on water quality in Burkina Faso
24.06.20-
Environmental health
When scientists turn to modeling, it is to investigate possible scenarios that cannot, for one…
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ILRI teams up with research partners to launch CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
24.06.20-
Food security
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Health
The International Livestock Research Institute has teamed up with the International Food Policy Rese…
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Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and beyond: ‘We need to amplify the lessons’
23.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Jim Hallett of the Society for Ecological Restoration reviews major recent book by World Agroforestr…
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World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
23.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Image of the full virion (complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell)…
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How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas
22.06.20-
Gender equality
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Health
By Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa Policy makers and researchers tracking the impacts of COVID-19…
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Government and research bodies expand seeds support to over 10,000 Nigerian smallholders to shield agriculture from COVID-19
22.06.20Farmers in 13 states of Nigeria will receive improved seeds of sorghum, pearl millet, cowpea…
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Does the smallholder farmer have access to quality inputs?
22.06.20With the onset of kharif (monsoon) in the southern states of India, the majority of…
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Turning many into one: CGIAR network restructures
22.06.20International agricultural science is facing a new era. The research network CGIAR decided on a…
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Policy seminar: Micronutrients in emergencies – how can we prevent an increase in hidden hunger?
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Health
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Nutrition
By Aynsley Morris The COVID-19 pandemic and associated business shutdowns and other control measures…
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A video is worth a million sweetpotato vines
22.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer-to-farmer training videos create demand for orange fleshed sweetpotatoes (OFSP) and high-qual…
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