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In a grain of rice: Solutions for poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa
13.11.19-
Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
What tiny object is capable of lifting millions of people above the poverty line and…
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A breath of fresh air: New planting machinery offers solution to burning crisis in India
13.11.19-
Climate
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Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When the rice harvest season arrives in northwest India, farmers have only ten to twenty…
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Towards a sustainable future for cocoa: Conserving and celebrating cacao diversity
07.11.19-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Global efforts are underway to secure a sustainable future for a much-loved but highly vulnerable…
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Guardians of diversity: The network of genebanks helping to feed the world
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Genomics
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Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of global efforts to achieve sustainable development and address climate change, a network…
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A GIFT for generations to come: The fish ending poverty and hunger for millions
07.11.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Fish bred to address poverty and hunger have now reached 16 countries, with more to…
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Untapped: How Sri Lanka’s septic tanks could become a sustainable support for farming
07.11.19-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste…
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Rohingya in Bangladesh are surviving – but their long-term prospects are grim
02.07.19-
Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Note: Join us July 10 as the authors and other participants discuss their survey of…
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A day to remember: Scientists and processors exchange on the changes in the cassava value chain in Colombia over the past 20 years
01.07.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for…
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Long-standing partnership with Myanmar strengthened
28.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The Department of Agriculture Research (DAR), Myanmar, has enhanced its partnership with ICRISAT for…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
26.06.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
24.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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Why now is the moment to invest in nutrition to transform our food systems
21.06.19-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Genomics
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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Special event: New IFPRI research program explores emerging problems of urban food systems
17.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in…
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What developing countries can learn from Europe’s experience with rural revitalization
17.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) will be the focus of a June 19 European Development…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate
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Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Nutrition
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Millions at lower risk of vitamin A deficiency after six-year campaign to promote orange-fleshed sweetpotato
13.06.19-
Nutrition
EMBARGOED TO 00.01 CET, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 More than two million households across six…
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To save biodiversity and feed the future, first cure “plant blindness”
13.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
From the urban jungle – even the leafier parts of suburbia – we often have…
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The recipe for better food systems
12.06.19-
Nutrition
How food is produced, consumed, and how much is lost or wasted shapes the health…
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Top shelf: Who has access to the healthiest processed foods?
11.06.19-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
In 2013, Mexico had the fourth highest sales of ultra-processed products worldwide. This is indicati…
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New Index outlines agrobiodiversity’s role in food system sustainability
11.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Agrobiodiversity Index is an innovative tool to calculate how well countries are conserving a…
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Ghetto chimps, 4 billion trees for Ethiopia, while Amazon deforestation accelerates…fast!
10.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
In Forests News last week: Can forests and smallholders live in harmony in Africa? Agriculture…
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