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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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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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Fight against fall armyworm in Asia benefits from experience in other regions
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When the destructive fall armyworm arrived in Asia in the summer of 2018, scientists were…
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Healthy diets at risk by expansion of industrial agriculture
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Revitalizing the rural economy: The power to make a change
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the effort to eliminate poverty worldwide, policies that address rural poverty must be central.…
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Poor in Africa south of the Sahara face rising disproportionate risks from extreme weather
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Weather shocks driven by climate change pose huge and still uncertain risks to the world’s…
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ADB-IRRI eye increased investments for sustainable agriculture technologies
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have recently …
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Tanzania’s female parliamentarians to mainstream gender in climate adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Climate change has been described as a wicked problem, with complexities, feedback loops and tipping…
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Making an Impact: 2018 Annual Report
29.10.19We excited to share our 2018 Annual Report entitled ‘Making an Impact’. We invite you…
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Food systems transformation: Uneven data, gaps hinder cross-country learning and comparison
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Health
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Nutrition
A common set of food system indicators used across countries and over time would allow…
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
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Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Towards sustainable food system transformation in the Global South
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Health
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Nutrition
At a side event during the October 2019 Committee on World Food Security meeting in…
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Voices from the field: Supporting healthy food environments in India
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Health
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Nutrition
Rates of overweight and obesity are rising at an alarming rate in India, especially among…
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IMMANA announces research grant call for applications
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Nutrition
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) program has announ…
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Investments, policies, and technologies for food security in Asia and the Pacific
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Hunger is still on the march in Asia and the Pacific. About 518 million people…
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How do we scale solar irrigation? Here’s what the experts think
28.10.19Solar powered irrigation systems are providing cheap, reliable water for smallholder farmers, all w…
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Outsmarting the enemy through proactive rice science
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Food security
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is collaborating with partners in the Healthy Crops…
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Policy seminar: Exploring the links between information access and effective government
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Big data
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Gender equality
Access to information, whether it is a citizen seeking information on her local politicians’ manda…
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Sorghum flour with high shelf life hits Nigerian markets
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a first-of-its-kind enterprise in Nigeria, a large-scale flour mill has come up with processed…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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