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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge
17.04.20-
Food security
This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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Global drivers of food system (un)sustainability: A multi-country correlation analysis
16.04.20-
Food security
Food systems are transforming rapidly, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, yet the dyn…
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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
BY DAVID LABORDE, WILL MARTIN AND ROB VOS As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, social and economic re…
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Scaling up the use of cassava peel as animal feed in Nigeria
16.04.20-
Food security
An innovative process turns cassava waste into valuable livestock feed and is ripe for scaling…
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Conservation agriculture key in meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals
16.04.20-
Food security
An international team of scientists has provided a sweeping new analysis of the benefits of conserv…
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Produce more coarse grains to meet pandemic nutrition challenge
16.04.20-
Food security
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Health
India will provide free food grains to more than 800 million poor people during the…
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Policy Brief: Creating Sustainable Value Chains For Transforming Food Systems
16.04.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting food value chains across South Asia. It is now…
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Sudan and Ethiopia boost wheat production through the TAAT project
16.04.20The ICARDA-coordinated Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) project, funded b…
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Global Food Policy Report 2020 launch: Building inclusive food systems
15.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The April 7 launch of IFPRI’s flagship 2020 Global Food Policy Report—this y…
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ILRI computing capacity made available to COVID-19 vaccine developers
15.04.20-
Health
While the International Livestock Research Institute campuses in Nairobi and Addis Ababa are unchara…
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Domestic livestock not a source of the COVID-19 disease—ILRI veterinary epidemiologist Eric Fevre
15.04.20-
Nutrition
A cattle keeper in Laos gives her cow salt (photo credit: ILRI Stevie Mann). ‘People…
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For the poorest countries, the full danger from coronavirus is only just coming into view
14.04.20-
Gender equality
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Health
BY MARI PANGESTU Three months after the outbreak began, it is easy to see the…
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Viewing food system transformation through the country lens
14.04.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT This post also appears on A4NH’s Food System Idea Exchange, a new blog series…
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