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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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Don’t forget about the impact of COVID-19 on the rural poor and on food security
13.04.20While all eyes are on Lombardy, Madrid, New York and Wuhan, what do we know…
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Diets in a time of coronavirus: Don’t let vegetables fall off the plate
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Gender equality
BY JODY HARRIS Vegetables are a key source of essential nutrition and play a crucial…
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Impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on vegetable value chains in Ethiopia
13.04.20-
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BY SENESHAW TAMRU, KALLE HIRVONEN AND BART MINTEN Measures to contain COVID-19 are expected to hav…
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Food-based dietary guidelines and a healthy eating index for Ethiopia: Methodology for development and evaluation
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Food security
A new paper details the study protocol for creating Ethiopia's first food-based dietary guidelines a…
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Broken supply chains: COVID-19 lockdown is having a devastating effect on livelihoods in rural India
13.04.20The 21 day lockdown of India to control the spread of COVID-19, announced by PM…
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How India’s food-based safety net is responding to the COVID-19 lockdown
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Food security
COVID-19 poses an extraordinary challenge for India, both for infectious disease control and for mai…
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New guidance launched to help countries track livestock emissions
13.04.20NEW ZEALAND (30 March 2020) – 92 developing countries included livestock-related emissions as a ta…
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Addressing COVID-19 impacts on fish and aquatic food systems
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Food security
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Health
WorldFish and partners join forces in research response As the COVID-19 pandemic continues …
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Will COVID-19 cause another food crisis? An early review
10.04.20-
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Health
BY JOHAN SWINNEN COVID-19 is disrupting economies around the world, but will it cause a…
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COVID-19-measures, daily laborers and their nutrition
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Food security
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Gender equality
Drive along any major road connecting an African city with the hinterland early in the…
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Farm health in times of corona: Govt must ensure the agri supply-chain remains uninterrupted
10.04.20-
Health
The evolving situation around Covid-19 is becoming critical. Governments have already announced guid…
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Revive havelis, India’s ancient rain harvesting farms, to save big on money and resources
10.04.20Have you ever heard of a dual-purpose farm that is a reservoir in the monsoon…
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Why the world needs inclusive food systems now more than ever
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Food security
The 2020 Global Food Policy Report is now out, with a sharp focus on creating…
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Colombian Farmers Donate Zinc Rice to Coronavirus-Stricken Cartagena
09.04.20-
Nutrition
"One by one we are all mortal. Together, we are eternal." These words of solidarity,…
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The secret recipe to scaling climate-smart agriculture: Youth
09.04.20Research trends reveal massive gaps in students primed to become Kenya’s next generation of agricu…
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A Call to Action for World Leaders Preventing a Global Food Security Crisis while Combatting COVID-19
08.04.20COVID-19 is posing unprecedented challenges for food systems around the world. The Food and Land Us…
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Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
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Biodiversity
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While the world’s attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the biodiversit…
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Addressing COVID-19 impacts on agriculture, food security, and livelihoods in India
08.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY S. MAHENDRA DEV With COVID-19 now spreading in India, massive consequences to health and…
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