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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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IWMI and Covid-19
20.04.20-
Health
The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…
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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers
19.04.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…
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Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
18.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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Transforming food systems for women’s empowerment and equity
17.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY LAURA ZSELECZKY, HAZEL MALAPIT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND AGNES QUISUMBING Shutdowns to control th…
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Satellite maps can help nations make critical food production decisions amid coronavirus
17.04.20-
Food security
Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red…
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Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal
17.04.20-
Health
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge
17.04.20-
Food security
This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis
16.04.20-
Food security
Food systems are transforming rapidly, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, yet the dyn…
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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DAVID LABORDE, WILL MARTIN AND ROB VOS As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, social and economic re…
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Scaling up the use of cassava peel as animal feed in Nigeria
16.04.20-
Food security
An innovative process turns cassava waste into valuable livestock feed and is ripe for scaling…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Produce more coarse grains to meet pandemic nutrition challenge
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the…
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