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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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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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IFPRI at the African Association of Agricultural Economists conference
23.09.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Association of Agricultural Economists holds its 6th annual conference this week in Ab…
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A focus on gender is key to climate adaptation
20.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Fourth in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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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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Benefits of interconnectedness: How addressing climate change can foster sustainable land and food security
17.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Third in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Policy seminar: Exploring a cash transfer program's impacts on malnutrition in war-torn Yemen
16.09.19-
Health
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Nutrition
The war in Yemen is an ongoing disaster for its people. Over 80% of the…
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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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Averting the looming climate crisis for the global poor
10.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Second in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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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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As the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit Approaches, here’s how IFPRI is addressing climate change
05.09.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
First in a series of blog posts exploring IFPRI's work on climate change and its implications for…
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Why the first thousand days matter most
04.09.19-
Nutrition
India’s National Nutrition Mission, or POSHAN Abhiyaan, recognizes the multisectoral nature of th…
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Will genetic engineering contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19-
Food security
Genetic engineering (GE)—the introduction or change of DNA, RNA or proteins by human manipulation …
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Can boosting yields slow the global palm oil expansion and ease its environmental impacts?
26.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Over the past two decades, global palm oil production has increased rapidly to meet rising…
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To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
21.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is…
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How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region
19.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change poses a significant global threat to food security and nutrition, largely through its…
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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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‘One Nation One Ration Card’ can transform lives in India
06.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
On June 27, India Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced plans to move towards a system of…
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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Protect our food. Fund the seed.
02.08.19-
Food security
“It is the seed that controls the system, not the other way around.” Chef and…
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