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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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
16.05.25-
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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Policy seminar: COVID-19's implications for food security, nutrition, and poverty
22.04.20-
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BY KATARLAH TAYLOR As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, disruptions in…
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The response from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT to COVID-19 impacts on global food systems
22.04.20The number of people affected by hunger, already a staggering 800 million, could double as…
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Why gender matters in COVID-19 responses – now and in the future
22.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY AGNES QUISUMBING, NEHA KUMAR, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND CLAUDIA RINGLER Controlling the COVID-19 p…
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Protecting staple crop production in the face of climate change
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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As climate change intensifies and global shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic spur countries to…
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Eating well: If instructions won’t work, perhaps music and dance do
22.04.20Information alone does not change eating habits. Together with the Billian Music Family in Mathare…
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Why nations must prepare for natural disasters amid the current Covid-19 pandemicÂ
22.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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This week, IWMI’s scientists used Google Earth Engine to produce a map depicting the current…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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Sentinel solutions for the Anthropocene
22.04.20This article is a longform, part of a new series of FTA blogs aiming at providing…
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FTA’s new Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Agenda and Action Plan 2020-2021
22.04.20A Revised Research Agenda and Action Plan 2020-2021 for FTA on Gender Equality and Social…
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Iron Pearl Millet: Crop of the Future for Improving Nutrition in Sahel
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Iron-biofortified pearl millet is grown by a quarter of a million farmers in India, and…
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Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Global Soil Spectral Calibration Library and Estimation Service, recently established by the G…
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Earth Day 2020: Lessons for human survival from a pandemic and a global environment under stress
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BY WEI ZHANG, ELIZABETH BRYAN, CLAUDIA RINGLER AND RUTH MEINZEN-DICK The 50th anniversary of Ea…
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Earth Day 2020: Climate Action for resilient food systems
21.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
To ensure food security following the COVID-19 pandemic, we must confront the climate crisis. The…
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Phone app gives opportunity to improve water productivity in Lebanon
21.04.20-
Big data
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…
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As COVID-19 threatens global food security, fresh potato is back on the tables of millions
20.04.20COVID-19 is driving demand for fresh potato in supermarkets and grocery stores across the globe…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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