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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
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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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Roots, tubers and bananas key ingredients of a more sustainable food future
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Food security
A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers…
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Livestock story-telling at ILRI—Part 1: Introduction, ‘Descending into the particular’
09.01.20St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. The 2019 institutional program meeting of the…
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Diet crisis in Africa’s low income urban zones but transition to nutritious foods possible
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CGIAR, the world’s largest global agricultural research network, has traditionally focused on rura…
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As United States marks January as ‘National One Health Awareness Month’, public, veterinary and environmental health in Africa is bolstered by the start of a new ‘One Health’ centre
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Menz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Zerihun Sewunet) Each year, an International One Health Day is ce…
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E-flow calculator measures water needs – and it’s being used by policy-makers
08.01.20A methodology used to ensure sustainable freshwater use and supply is now being used to…
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Food imperatives in context of the agriculture, nutrition, and environment nexus
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Food security
IRRI Representative for South Asia Dr. Nafees Meah is the guest editor for “Food…
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Advancing state goals with better rice varieties: Bihar Principal Secretary of Agriculture visits ISARC
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Food security
ISARC Director Dr. Arvind Kumar tours Government of Bihar’s Principal Secretary of the Depa…
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Analysis of ACE’s Warehouse Receipts and Market Information Systems: An IFPRI-ACE dissemination event
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Food security
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Gender equality
Providing smallholder farmers access to markets and price information is key to improving agricultur…
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Knowledge for a Sustainable Food Future: New Foresight Tool Examines Impact of Agricultural Investments
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
How can we feed 10 billion people by 2050? How much and in what ways…
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Jo Swinnen joins IFPRI as new director general
07.01.20IFPRI is pleased to welcome as its new Director General Jo Swinnen, an agricultural economist…
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With technology and trust, we can move mountains
07.01.20If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
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Big data
In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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When pastures are not green in the eyes of the youth
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When you go to the Philippines’ Cordillera Administrative Region, your initial reaction might be t…
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Two animated shorts on practical steps to improve animal welfare and reduce drug resistance in poor countries
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Start this new year (and decade) right. Watch these two little animated films for practical…
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Studying climate-smart agriculture in Vietnam
06.01.20The National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), in partnership with the CGIAR Research Progr…
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Focus on the political and commercial drivers behind the double burden of malnutrition
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Nutrition
On Dec. 16, The Lancet published a new series of papers on The Double Burden of Malnutrition—th…
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A prototype for massive-scale capacity building for farmers
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Environmental health
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Health
A massive capacity building initiative involving elaborate logistical arrangements covering all the …
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Growing for Gold: improving farming and fishing in Cambodia
03.01.20Thy and and her husband Chhub are rice and vegetable growers and small-scale fishers in…
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