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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
16.05.25-
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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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Changing the course on gendered transitions to adulthood in Africa
08.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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The making of Bangladesh's Blue Revolution
06.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Though fish has long been the largest source of protein in Bangladeshi diets, for decades…
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Rurbanomics: The path to rural revitalization in Africa
05.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The deadlines to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate goals dr…
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Modernizing NARS crop breeding programs for improved genetic gains in 14 countries
01.11.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A course designed to modernize National Agricultural Research System (NARS) breeding programs for im…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
31.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
25.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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New project offers circular-economy solutions for refugee and host communities in East Africa
24.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new three-year project that will pilot and scale locally viable and gender-responsive circular-eco…
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Book launch: Ghana’s prospects for economic transformation
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the past 30 years, Ghana has experienced steady growth in per capita income and…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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Ghanaian farmers can now control Aflatoxin, earn big
14.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A study has identified the best non-toxic strains that can limit aflatoxin contamination in laborato…
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CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia
10.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Ag…
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Agricultural growth is key to spur Ghana's economic growth
09.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana has been viewed as one of Africa's political and economic success stories, from maintaining…
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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
07.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 60% of all employed women in Africa south of the Sahara work in…
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Closing the gap: women-focused initiative empowers farmers in Odisha
03.10.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Women farmers make up a sizeable part of rice production, but they have less opportunities…
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Climate mitigation can support growth in developing countries
02.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Climate change is already upon us. Proliferating and intensifying natural disasters, soaring numbers…
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Informal traders in Africa’s cities: Coopted, coerced or just neglected?
01.10.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In early 2018, as Zambia’s capital of Lusaka faced a widening cholera epidemic, the country’s…
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Informal traders in African cities are being used as political pawns
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What’s needed to ensure that informal traders are handled fairly and humanely rather than being…
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Call for proposals: The political economy of food system transformation
25.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) is issuing a call for…
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