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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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New world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
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Food security
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score…
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How a disease without borders was contained
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Food security
t’s been eight years since maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported on the African…
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Democracy and commodity cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The social upheavals occurring across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have equally impacted co…
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Ahmed Amri: From Morocco to Syria … and back again
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Biodiversity
Name a tune and chances are Ahmed Amri can sing it for you. If he…
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Research: Cash transfers significantly decrease violence against women in polygamous households in Mali
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Gender equality
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Health
The new paper investigates the impacts of Mali's national cash transfer program (Jigisémèjiri) on …
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Putting new-age agronomy to test in Indian farms
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A group of farmers in India’s Telangana state is breaking new ground in their farms…
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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IITA joins other CGIAR centers to provide support to rebuild Somalia’s Agriculture sector
22.11.19IITA and eight other CGIAR centers have met with officials from the Government of Somalia and…
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IITA scientist highlights healthy diets at World Food Day seminar
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Food security
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on 16 October and dedicated to tackle hunger…
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Global tilapia industry under threat from highly contagious disease
22.11.19The world’s second most farmed fish, tilapia, is under threat from a highly contagious disease…
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Nutrition Society of Nigeria annual conference: Opportunities for experience sharing across A4NH flagships, between Nigeria and Ethiopia
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Nutrition
The annual conference of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria held in Abuja in September 2019…
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Spotlight on Village Seed Entrepreneurs making money from cassava stems in Nigeria
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In March of 2019, we visited Village Seed Entrepreneurs (VSEs) in Benue State, Nigeria, that…
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Policy seminar: Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
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Food security
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years
21.11.19Rapid Generation Advancement promises to be a simple yet cost effective solution ICRISAT’s chickpe…
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Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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Agricultural areas affected in Mariana bet on diversifying production
21.11.19According to the forester, the nutrients provided by the different species enrich life in the…
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More vaccination, not antibiotics, needed for Kenyan livestock—Straight talk by Sidai Chair Christie Peacock
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Food security
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Health
The following interview of Christie Peacock was conducted at the February 2019 launch of the…
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