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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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Hybrid seed production and marketing advances
18.06.21-
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“My goal is to produce and sell 200 metric tons of hybrid maize by 2025,”…
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Global Landscapes Forum Africa: Restoring Africa’s drylands needs a localized, integrated approach, say experts at the conference
11.06.21-
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At the recent GLF Africa: Restoring Africa’s Drylands Conference, thousands of restoration practit…
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Moving forward with sustainable forage-based livestock production systems in Colombia
11.06.21-
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Sustainability is a word that is used more and more often these days. Although the…
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Smallholder and agrifood SME resilience to shocks: Lessons from COVID-19 for the UN Food System Summit
10.06.21-
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BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN AND ROB VOS The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed both the…
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Gender-integrated business strategies empower women in Zambia
10.06.21-
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In Zambia, rural women play a vital role in aquaculture and related value chains, but…
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Opinion: Getting the most out of every last drop of water
10.06.21-
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Water is often held up as a precious, life-giving element for its essential role in…
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Winning, ‘climate-smart’, ways to feed India’s dairy cows—Jimmy Smith, of ILRI
09.06.21-
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(The post was written by Kennady Vijayalakshmy, research and communications officer with ILRI in Sou…
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2021 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Food systems transformation from diets to policies
09.06.21-
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BY QIYUN HUANG As the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded over the past year,…
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African breeding programs leap forward by accessing new genotyping data
09.06.21-
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With newly accessible genotyping technologies, African crop breeding programs have partnered with Ei…
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Never let good waste become a crisis: lessons for the Global South
09.06.21-
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As a global society, we waste a third – 1.3 billion metric tons – of…
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Remote sensing for irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: Promises and pitfalls
08.06.21-
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There is growing demand for sustainable development policy that is data driven, but our unprecedente…
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Digital innovations accelerated by COVID-19 are revolutionizing food systems: Implications for the UN Food Systems Summit
08.06.21-
Food security
BY THOMAS REARDON, JOHAN SWINNEN, ROB VOS AND DAVID ZILBERMAN The COVID-19 pandemic has caused…
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World Food Prize Laureate Shakuntala Thilsted urges UN Assembly to act on aquatic foods
08.06.21-
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WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted, who was recently …
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In the Spotlight: Tasnuva Zaman
08.06.21-
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WorldFish and the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) are global leaders in…
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Cookbook celebrates aquatic foods for life and livelihoods in Timor-Leste
08.06.21-
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Since achieving its independence 20 years ago, Timor-Leste has set out to forge a cohesive…
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Nutrition scientist Dr. Shakuntala Thilsted awarded the 2021 World Food Prize
08.06.21-
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Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health at WorldFish, was na…
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Small businesses fuel Zambia’s aquaculture sector
08.06.21-
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Northern Zambia’s growing small-scale aquaculture sector offers new opportunities to improve food …
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Zambian aquaculture provides new opportunities for youth
08.06.21-
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Zambia’s emerging aquaculture sector is set to be a key supplier of fish and other…
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