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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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Meeting in The Gambia delivers Banjul Tree Cover Resolution: ‘Every day that we delay comes at a cost’
30.03.20-
Food security
On 20-21 February, the Government of The Gambia, under its Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation P…
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Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming
30.03.20-
Big data
A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing…
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Promoting better agricultural practices of drought-tolerant crops in farming communities
30.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Makueni Agribusiness Ventures is a ten-member farmer group that participated in an AVCD funded good…
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COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers
30.03.20Conservationists have greeted China’s recent clampdown on wild animal hunting and consumption with…
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IITA identifies opportunities to make a difference amidst COVID-19 spread across Africa
28.03.20As COVID-19 or coronavirus gets closer to home—Africa, the International Institute of Tropical Agr…
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COVID-19: Trade restrictions are worst possible response to safeguard food security
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
As COVID-19 spreads around the globe, fears of a deep global recession are mounting. Some…
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Policy seminar: Sustainable trade and the EU-Mercosur Agreement
27.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In 2019, the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay)…
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First Lady of Niger leads millet movement
27.03.20-
Health
Niger recently celebrated the second annual International Millet Festival (FESTIMIL), aimed a…
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Farmers in Eastern Kenya reap big profits from improved varieties of drought-tolerant crops
27.03.20Farmers in Eastern Kenya are seeing an increase in yield from their crops and earning…
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Commemorating 2020 International Women’s Day: Creating an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and equal opportunity
27.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An insightful panel discussion on building inclusive work spaces was the focus of International Wome…
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Participants appreciate the practicality of training in seed procurement
27.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Participants of a training course organized by the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio (PATS…
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Could agro-ecological approaches be a low-cost alternative towards fall armyworm control for smallholders in Zambia?
27.03.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Smart Mwape, a 65-year-old farmer in Chongwe, Zambia was surprised to find strange caterpillars as…
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‘Sweet spot of connection’: Social movements, researchers, ENGOs eye opportunities and challenges around small-scale fisheries
27.03.20Over 40 stakeholders came together in late 2019, kick starting new conversations on ways to…
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Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic
26.03.20As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world and disrupt the operations…
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Chinese livestock farms struggle under COVID-19 restrictions
26.03.20-
Food security
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Health
After the COVID-19 outbreak began in December in Hubei Province, many Chinese villages were locked…
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ICARDA’s Mustapha El-Bouhssini explains how crop pests are moving in a warming world
26.03.20Insect resistance in plants is needed now more than ever. The UN, which has named…
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Moving from water problems to water solutions in a climate-challenged world
26.03.20Originally published on Rural 21. The beginning of life on Earth has been linked to water.…
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IITA launches IYPH website
26.03.20By now, we know that 2020 is the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). Throughout…
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