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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
14.05.25<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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Strengthening city-region food systems during and beyond COVID-19
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Cities, like any area where population densities peak, are hot spots for the spread of…
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Hari Upadhyaya: The fearless breeder in the genebank
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Biodiversity
As a young man growing up in the village of Shiwala in India’s Uttar Pradesh,…
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Lessons on tackling the growing risk of emerging infectious diseases in Africa
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Health
As part of a new blog series on COVID-19, scientists from the International Food Policy…
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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people
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The outbreak of COVID-19 is a rude awakening to many who believed the era of…
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Is COVID19 a threat to the stability of rice price and supply?
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Food security
by Jean Balié and Harold G. Valera As governments around the world are realizing the…
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Africa’s growing risk of diseases that spread from animals to people
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Health
BY BERNARD BETT, DELIA RANDOLPH AND JOHN MCDERMOTT The outbreak of COVID-19 is a rude awakening to…
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Mapping bacterial wilt in Uganda
07.04.20Bacterial wilt is a serious threat to potato production in Uganda, and throughout Africa. But…
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Crossing boundaries
07.04.20Daily life as we know it has grinded to a halt and crop scientists are…
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What if we need more? Wildling propagation as an alternative for production of tree-planting material
07.04.20A quick search amongst the policies that brought forth the biggest forest restoration projects in…
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Partnership between IRRI and AgriPlex enhances genotyping support for rice breeders worldwide
07.04.20Los Baños, Philippines, and Cleveland, USA - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI…
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How India’s food-based safety net is responding to the COVID-19 lockdown
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BY DEVESH ROY, RUCHIRA BOSS AND MAMATA PRADHAN COVID-19 poses an extraordinary challenge for Indi…
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Global Food Policy Report 2020: Inclusive food systems can help build resilience to withstand pandemics and other shocks
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Gender equality
BY JOHAN SWINNEN As the world battles the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
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World needs to keep a close watch on agriculture while battling COVID-19 pandemic
06.04.20As the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic with lockdowns and shutdowns of economies globally, countr…
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Biocontrol reduces Maruca pod borer population by 85%
06.04.20Scientists based at CGIAR-IITA’s climate change station in Benin are happy with the results of…
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Certified seed fetches twice the market rate: Farmers hitch onto seed production
05.04.20The production of cereals is critical for food security in Mali. Cereals account for around…
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Rising market pull for dryland crops prompts move for setting-up efficient seed delivery systems
05.04.20Increasing market demand for dryland crops in Kenya and Tanzania owing to IFAD-funded project interv…
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Fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Some thoughts for developing countries and the international community
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA Rich countries have introduced massive health and public spending programs …
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A rich harvest of not just legumes but of changed destinies and better nutrition: charting the 12 year course of the Tropical Legumes project
05.04.20This compilation of real-life ‘impact’ stories from the Tropical Legumes projects over the past …
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