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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
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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
12.12.19Millions of smallholder farmers are struggling under immediate climate change impacts and need respi…
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Latin America & Caribbean strengthen their cooperation for climate action
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable to the effects…
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Seven climate resilience questions to help guardians of nature
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Third in a series of blog posts examining the role of risk in agriculture under climate…
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What is wheat blast?
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Food security
There are no widely available resistant varieties, and fungicides are expensive and provide only a…
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Global symposium brings scientists and policymakers together for a “new vision” of sustainable fisheries
11.12.19Fish harvested from naturally occurring stocks in ocean, coastal and inland waters are crucia…
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The crippling of the multilateral trading system
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As of today (Dec. 10), the dispute settlement mechanism of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has…
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Policy seminar: Digital technologies are crucial to transforming Africa’s food systems
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Big data
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Food security
Digital technologies are key to transforming food systems and agriculture across Africa. A Nov. 26…
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Screening cycle for deadly MLN virus set to begin in Kenya in January 2020
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Food security
The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya, will begin…
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Overlooked, underused crops: An answer to our food system problems?
09.12.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
A recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rang alarm bells about the…
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African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana
09.12.19The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) was launched recently to bring together plant breeders…
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New dual-purpose pearl millet shows promise as excellent fodder in Niger
09.12.19Two varieties of dual-purpose (food and fodder) pearl millet were shown to increase weight and…
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The challenge of ensuring water supply in the Philippines
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Creating incentives for communities to help secure water supply is a win-win situation but without…
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Workshop on gene editing held at ICRISAT
09.12.19Twenty crop scientists from Asia and Africa were trained for two weeks at ICRISAT on…
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Oceans will be key to future food security – new expert report
09.12.19A new report estimates that the ocean could provide six times more food than…
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2019 ReSAKSS Annual Conference: Gender equality in rural Africa, from commitments to outcomes
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Food security
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Gender equality
Third in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2019 Annual Trends and…
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New dual-purpose pearl millet shows promise as excellent fodder in Niger
06.12.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Two varieties of dual-purpose (food and fodder) pearl millet were shown to increase weight and…
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African Plant Breeders Association launched in Ghana
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) was launched recently to bring together plant breeders…
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International training in agroforestry for policy makers
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Twenty-six mid-level policymakers from Africa and Asia — Bangladesh, Botswana, Cambodia, Malawi, M…
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