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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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
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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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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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Towards equality for women and men in root and tuber agri-food systems
06.03.20-
Gender equality
UN Women notes that 2020 represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize global action to achieve gend…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
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Food security
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Nutrition
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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Partnering to scale big data from small-scale fisheries
06.03.20Our communications team sat down with Alex Tilley, scientist at WorldFish, and Dave Solomon, CEO…
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Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights
06.03.20"An encounter thirty years ago in rural Costa Rica stays with me to this day.…
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Four (very) short stories of ‘Aha!’ moments—when the central importance of gender issues really hit home
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
All images here are of a sculpture, ‘Tete’, by Amedeo Modigliani (this picture credit: Christieâ…
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Delivering equality means systems change, say IWMI experts
06.03.20-
Gender equality
On International Women’s Day, Deepa Joshi shares a lesson from South Africa to demonstrate why …
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In Nepal, despite political empowerment, women find limited opportunities to shape water policy
06.03.20-
Gender equality
Researchers from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) have been studying the link bet…
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Weathering the storm or storming the norms: Can climate-smart agriculture produce gender equality?
06.03.20As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on…
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Root and tuber crops have a central role to play in building resilience in Asian agri-food systems
05.03.20As developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and its impact on agriculture…
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Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
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Health
In our increasingly interconnected world, outbreaks of infectious diseases – such as Ebola, SARS a…
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Four ways of strengthening gender equality in the agricultural sector in the MENA region
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Gender equality
When it comes to labor markets, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one…
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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
04.03.20-
Food security
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…
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Time to change the system: Researchers reveal experiences in a biased world
04.03.20An excerpt from our upcoming podcast: [audio mp3="https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2020/03/IW…
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Time to act on malnutrition in all its forms in West Africa
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Nutrition
This post, which originally appeared on Transform Nutrition West Africa, explores how West Africa is…
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Linking iron-biofortified beans and physical performance
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Nutrition
Deficiency in key dietary micronutrients remains a significant nutrition problem in low- and middle-…
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Studying the potato’s water needs for more efficient irrigation
02.03.20Water is essential for food production, with farming accounting for about 70 percent of global…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
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Gender equality
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease
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Health
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Nutrition
Graphic by the Aldas Project, 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated …
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