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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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Successful partnership with Odisha Government for effective agri strategy in times of COVID-19
08.05.20-
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Health
Working closely with the Government of Odisha, ICRISAT has helped develop a mitigation strategy for…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
08.05.20-
Food security
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Health
A look at how digital tools and technologies have been and could be used to…
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Double burden of COVID-19: Declining livelihood opportunities and aspiration failure among poor people
08.05.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis but an economic crisis too. In…
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Providing information to empower women in agriculture: Evidence from Uganda
08.05.20-
Gender equality
BY BJORN VAN CAMPENHOUT, ELS LECOUTERE AND DAVID SPIELMAN In many developing countries, women ofte…
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COVID-19 lockdowns are imposing substantial economic costs on countries in Africa
08.05.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JAMES THURLOW Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are suffering rapid and substantial economi…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
08.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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Call for proposals: The Future of X
08.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
As part of the forthcoming CGIAR Foresight Report, a series of short notes will be…
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Equality in a post-pandemic era: gender, COVID-19, agriculture and climate change
08.05.20COVID-19 is intensifying climate change impacts, adding extra pressure to food systems, livelihoods,…
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COVID-19 threatens agriculture, food, nutrition security: WLE Chair joins international call for action
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Food security
In an open letter to the United Nations and national governments, global experts and leaders are c…
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IFPRI Announces New Board Chair
07.05.20May 7, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research…
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Let’s not forget the quality of food in crisis, millet entrepreneurs speak out
07.05.20-
Environmental health
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Health
Pan-India survey highlights areas for government intervention A recent survey of millet entrepreneur…
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How much food is actually lost and wasted? The role of careful measurement
06.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
In the time of crisis such as the world is living through now, it is…
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Assessing the toll of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the South African economy
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY CHANNING ARNDT, SHERWIN GABRIEL AND SHERMAN ROBINSON COVID-19 is expected to have major impacts…
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Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A rapid and low-cost spectral technique was used to improve farmers’ understanding of their soils,…
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Registration systems for farmers’ varieties: Ongoing policy dialogues and experiences from the field
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Why haven’t farmers’ varieties yet found a place in national and global seed markets? And…
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COVID-19: Flattening the food insecurity curve
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To avoid societal collapses and their many potential ripple effects on world security, we must…
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IFPRI’s new COVID-19 Food Price Monitor tracks warning signs of stress in local markets
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY MANUEL HERNANDEZ, SOONHO KIM, BRENDAN RICE AND ROB VOS Food systems are complex and the disrup…
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PIM News: April 2020
05.05.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
April 2020 collection of COVID-19 resources, new publications, blogs, webinars, and more from the CG…
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