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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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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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Special event: Nurul Islam on a lifetime in global development
19.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In his more than 60 years of work in international development, IFPRI Research Fellow Emeritus Nuru…
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The Papua Atlas: New tool tracks development on remote island, as-it-happens
18.09.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - The Papua region, which makes up the Indonesian half of the island of…
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How small businesses are driving growth across African agriculture
12.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new report from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) finds that millions of sm…
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IRRI co-organizes multi-stakeholder dialogue to strengthen extension and advisory services in Odisha
11.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Department of Agriculture and Fa…
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Harnessing livestock innovations for greater economic good
10.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shirley Tarawali, assistant director general of ILRI, speaking at GASL 2019 (photo credit: IL…
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China offers e-commerce lessons for rural Africa
09.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shuyang, a once poverty-stricken county in China’s northern Jiangsu Province, has a history of hor…
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Embracing change: How family farmers can face the future
09.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year opens the Decade of Family Farming (#FamilyFarmingDecade), which aims to improve the lif…
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Breeding future-ready crops: Incorporating key traits in breeding programs via product profiles
06.09.19-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Developing crop varieties that meet the needs of all stakeholders, with farmers, value chain actors…
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Nane Nane Expo: Tanzanian agricultural show inspires research teams to excel
06.09.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research programs from the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) showcased their best tech…
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Scientists test an experimental vaccine against malignant catarrhal fever at ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station
04.09.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock grazing at Kapiti Research Station (Photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu) The annual mig…
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CGIAR at AGRF 2019
03.09.19-
Environmental health
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Health
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The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), considered to be the world’s most important forum for…
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AfDB-TAAT promotes trailblazing hybrid rice technology adapted to Africa
16.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
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16 August 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded …
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Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers’ profits and cut pollution, new study shows
09.08.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Published in Science, the article provides evidence for national policies that block stubble burning…
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Guiding farmers to safer use of pesticides in Rwanda and Burundi
08.08.19-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s hard to overstate the importance of root, tuber, and banana (RTB crops) for smallholder…
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Can creation of a separate Indian Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries bring fresh momentum in growth?
08.08.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The creation of a separate ministerial portfolio for animal husbandry, dairying, and fisheries for t…
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Rice Doctor -An innovative technological approach to enhance rice production
05.08.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Crop losses due to insect pests and diseases are a major threat to farming communities…
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Kenyan livestock sector to grow ‘exponentially’—Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
31.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cattle grazing at ILRI’s Kapiti Ranch Research Station, outside Nairobi, in Kenya (photo credit: I…
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IRRI, Tao Corporation sign pact for the commercialization and distribution of elite hybrid rice varieties across the Philippines
31.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Partnership seen to give local rice farmers better access to seeds of high-yielding and climate-resi…
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