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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 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-
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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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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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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International Day of Rural Women 2019: Measuring what matters for gender equality
14.10.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
So far, 99 organizations have used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), an innova…
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How air pollution is holding down wheat yields in India
11.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Since the start of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, India has tripled its wheat…
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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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Understanding what impacts last, after the project ends
08.10.19-
Nutrition
Development projects set out to better understand and find ways to improve outcomes for people…
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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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Incorporating prevention into community-based management of acute malnutrition: Insights from Mali and Burkina Faso
04.10.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Globally, 52 million children suffer from acute malnutrition. Children with moderate acute malnutrit…
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Crunching IFPRI data to build research capacity in Papua New Guinea
03.10.19-
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Nutrition
One of IFPRI’s most important pillars is capacity building, which includes training students and g…
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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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Locally-grown fruits and vegetables can improve diets of rural women in India
30.09.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiency, is especially acute among women in India. In Mahar…
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TICAD7 Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges
27.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
To feed its growing population amid climate change and other challenges, Africa needs a flourishing…
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How do we estimate the consequences of global inaction on genetic diversity conservation, exchange, and use?
26.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Target 2.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for maintaining “the genetic diversi…
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Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts
25.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
On Sept. 23, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the Neth…
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Programs need to focus on the double burden of malnutrition: Evidence from Guatemala
25.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Most countries, at all levels of development and in all regions of the world, today…
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Policy seminar: Doing more, doing better, and doing new on climate adaptation
24.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
With the Sept. 23 UN Climate Action Summit and other events—including the recent release of the …
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