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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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COVID-19 and global trade implications for food systems and healthy diets
21.05.20-
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The authors consider rippling impacts of COVID-19 on trade as food system actors experience loss…
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IFPRI’s COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal: Identifying trends and implications for food systems
20.05.20-
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Health
BY DANIELLE RESNICK The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has stimulated multiple and varied polic…
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The challenge of charcoal
20.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part two in a series of three stories that…
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What can COVID-19 teach us about responding to climate change?
20.05.20In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have been taking a range of different measures,…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
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Food security
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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How small fishers in Kerala’s Poonthura benefited from COVID-19 time auction system
19.05.20-
Food security
Marine fishing in India has largely come to a standstill in the wake of COVID-19…
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Covid-19: Hitting rural farming
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The issue of food and nutrition security has come to the fore in Bangladesh as…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India
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Nutrition
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Nigeria
19.05.20-
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Nutrition
A family shows their fish smoker, Tungan Mairuwa village, Kainji Lake, NW Nigeria. Photo by…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Myanmar
19.05.20-
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Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume…
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Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…
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Youth in fisheries, aquaculture and value chains: A study and foundation for building back better
19.05.20As impacts of the global pandemic COVID-19 continue to spread, young people face particular challeng…
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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
19.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
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Biodiversity
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Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
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Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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