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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
14.05.25<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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Policy seminar: The European Union plans to tackle climate change, one value chain at a time
25.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The European Commission (EC) Green Deal is a critical initiative aimed at making the whole of Eur…
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Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
25.02.20Biofortification Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in …
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Ugandan experts forecast 40-50% adoption of new bioengineered potato Victoria
24.02.20Stakeholders working within the potato sector in Uganda are confident about the wide adoption of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Vast amounts of energy, nutrients, water could be recovered from world’s wastewater, says new report
24.02.20Vast, valuable amounts of energy, essential agricultural nutrients, and water could be recovered fro…
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ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
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Book launch: The making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh
21.02.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For decades, high fish prices contributed to poor nutrition in Bangladesh, placing a key source…
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India forum: Securing the harvest for food security
21.02.20-
Food security
Each year, about 1.3 billion tons of food produced for human consumption is lost after harvest…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with the unveiling of ICRISAT’s…
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Spotlight on pearl millet – biofortification and drought tolerance
21.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pearl millet scientists discussed the ‘Future micronutrient breeding strategy in pearl millet’, …
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development
21.02.20-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…
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IRRI inks MoU furthering research cooperation with Nepal’s Agriculture & Forestry University
21.02.2014 February 2020, Kathmandu, Nepal – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Director …
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MEDIA RELEASE| Growing trees on farms in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan faces significant obstacles but there are ways to overcome them: first study’s results
20.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya. 20 February 2020 – Small plot-sizes, as well as lack of information and external…
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Disappearing wetlands show why we need to nurture nature
20.02.20Rainforests grab the headlines, but with 87% of wetlands lost globally, it is time to…
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Scaling Readiness: A scientific approach to scaling innovations
19.02.20-
Food security
Scaling innovations is one of the biggest challenges facing research and development organizations. …
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A simple innovation in Assam is leading to more food between growing seasons
19.02.20As farmers look to grow more food for their families and the marketplace, increasing production…
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Does rural Africa have a 'youth problem'?
19.02.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
More than 20 million young people aged 15-24 join the workforce in Africa south of…
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