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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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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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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
11.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and…
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Policy seminar: The changing challenges of hidden hunger
11.03.20-
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Nutrition
Global efforts to improve nutrition require approaches that focus on the entire food system, leading…
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This 18th century sketch might be the map to our agro-ecological transformation
11.03.20To tackle today’s planetary-scale challenges of biodiversity loss and chemical pollution, tame sol…
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Ethiopia has a Nobel Prize and a fast-growing economy. Can it also gain a food secure future?
11.03.20Ethiopia is now Africa’s fastest-growing economy, and this week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is rece…
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More than a bank: Rethinking the IADB
10.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Second of two parts. Read the first here. As the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) enters it…
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“The Potato Crop” receives enthusiastic reception: An interview with co-editors
10.03.20Continue reading “The Potato Crop” receives enthusiastic reception: An interview with co-editors…
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Study shows high-iron beans improve women’s physical performance
10.03.20-
Nutrition
Iron-biofortified beans improved iron status and physical performance of iron-deficient Rwandan wome…
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Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya's future
10.03.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically…
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No time to waste: Tropical forests become source of global warming
10.03.20-
Environmental health
Terry Sunderland, a collaborating author of the Nature article “Asynchronous carbon sink saturatio…
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More than a bank: Reflections on the history of the Inter-American Development Bank
09.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
First of two parts. In 2019 the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) celebrated the 60th annive…
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What keeps Bill Gates up at night? A (highly prescient) 2015 article spells out our COVID-19 challenges today
08.03.20Bill Gates (photo credit: Marcos Fuentes via Flickr). What keeps Bill Gates up at night?…
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On this International Women’s Day 2020, ILRI commits to strengthening women’s rights in livestock systems and enterprises
07.03.20-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) i…
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Open data to boost Groundnut breeding initiatives: a testimony by Dr. Janila Pasupuleti
07.03.20Groundnut is among the key grain legumes playing a vital role in enhancing human nutrition…
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IITA-BIP sets record for maize production per hectare in Nigeria
07.03.20-
Food security
The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new production record for maize in Nige…
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How wasps are used to control the destructive cowpea pest—Maruca vitrata
07.03.20-
Health
Maruca vitrata, also known as Maruca pod borer, is one of the most devastating insect…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing global insights from national data in Bangladesh
06.03.20-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers…
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Celebrating the ‘WILD’ (‘Women In Livestock Development’) at ILRI on International Women’s Day—Video
06.03.20-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Check out this video short highlighting women working at the International Livestock Research Instit…
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