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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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We need a new approach, or another coronavirus is inevitable
02.03.20-
Health
‘Until we start thinking of human and animal health as linked, another coronavirus is inevitable 
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine-harvestable Chickpea
02.03.20Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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(Enteric methane) greenhouse gas emissions in cows are cut 25% with feed supplement (3-NOP)
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Africa's litigated democracy
28.02.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Feb. 12, the Malawi High Court upheld its original decision to nullify the country’s…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
28.02.20-
Food security
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Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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Youth Transitions in the drylands: gendered rights in land access and control
28.02.20In 2019, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) initiated a…
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
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Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Viral flash points? Poor urban settlements are highly vulnerable to the risk of the new coronavirus
27.02.20-
Health
Scene in Nairobi’s low-income Kibera settlement (photo credit: David Orgel/Flickr). A new guest bl…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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The brown revolution: Plant food from toilet waste
26.02.20Urban areas around the world are feeling the weight of growing populations. While cities can…
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Modelling farming systems to understand potential outcomes of agricultural interventions
25.02.20-
Food security
Three recent studies show how modelling systems can be an effective tool for decision-makers to…
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Policy seminar: Introducing the Food Systems Dashboard
25.02.20-
Food security
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Health
With as many as 32 major reports on food systems out in the past few…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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