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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-
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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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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: India
19.05.20-
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Nutrition
The nationwide lockdown, characterized by a very strict confinement period, ended on May 17th. Prime…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Nigeria
19.05.20-
Food security
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A family shows their fish smoker, Tungan Mairuwa village, Kainji Lake, NW Nigeria. Photo by…
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Fish and Aquatic Food Systems COVID-19 updates for May: Myanmar
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Lockdown measures were relaxed from May 15th and highway public transportation was set to resume…
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Dried fish in a COVID-19 world
19.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates powerfully and directly the degree to which globalization has crea…
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Youth in fisheries, aquaculture and value chains: A study and foundation for building back better
19.05.20As impacts of the global pandemic COVID-19 continue to spread, young people face particular challeng…
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What's in the soil, stays in the soil: Conserving carbon in our soils to transform food systems
19.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We are in a time of crisis and great uncertainty. COVID-19, besides being responsible for…
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This little seed went to market
18.05.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
It’s not always easy to produce and sell new maize varieties in Malawi. Seed companies…
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Understanding partnership dynamics to facilitate innovation scaling
18.05.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research for development organizations like the International Potato Center (CIP), which develop sci…
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The German Federal Government supports Kenya’s efforts for COVID-19 testing
18.05.20-
Health
Scientists preparing samples in ILRI’s Biosafety Level III facilities at it’s Nairobi laboratori…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI
16.05.20-
Health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a week…
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Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India’s agricultural policy
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
As the coronavirus crisis triggers a large-scale exodus of migrant agricultural workers from India…
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A four-pronged plan to secure farming communities in Eastern and Southern Africa
15.05.20-
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Health
ICRISAT is working with an array of development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa to…
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COVID-19-related trade restrictions on rice and wheat could drive up prices and increase hunger
15.05.20-
Food security
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Health
BY TIMOTHY SULSER AND SHAHNILA DUNSTON Some governments have responded to alarms about possible COV…
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Fixing the global food system after coronavirus
15.05.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY RUBEN ECHEVARRÍA From panic-buying in Europe, to bans on rice exports in Asia and rising fo…
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Introducing West Africa’s largest insect collection
15.05.20How do you catch all these insects? How do you know they are here? Do…
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Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond
15.05.20The post Managing Asian food systems in the time of COVID-19 and beyond appeared first…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
Big data
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Food security
While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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