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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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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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As COVID-19 threatens global food security, fresh potato is back on the tables of millions
20.04.20COVID-19 is driving demand for fresh potato in supermarkets and grocery stores across the globe…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
Big data
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Food security
An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Caring for the seeds of the future during the quarantine
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
Making sure that the collections of beans, cassava, bananas, and forages remain alive, even during…
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FEATURE: Go green and white: EU must mainstream natural capital accounting for sustainable food production and consumption
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
In December 2019, the European Union announced its Green Deal: a roadmap for making the bloc's…
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ET Insights: The pandemic is shining a spotlight on failure
20.04.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
We know that one of the most important actions everyone can take to protect ourselves…
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How to help an Earth under stress? Let’s look to wetlands
20.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
As we mark Earth Day this week, we look to nature’s solutions to climate change…
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IWMI and Covid-19
20.04.20-
Health
The following is a statement from Claudia Sadoff, Director General, IWMI in light of the…
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ILRI’s response to the pandemic: A deepening engagement with the press and policymakers
19.04.20-
Health
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is launching an initiative to share, as broadl…
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Lockdown: Centre, States helped agricultural sector, but a lot yet to be done to ensure growth
18.04.20-
Food security
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Health
The disruptions on rural livelihoods and food supplies from COVID-19 lockdown have worried all stake…
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Transforming food systems for women’s empowerment and equity
17.04.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY LAURA ZSELECZKY, HAZEL MALAPIT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK AND AGNES QUISUMBING Shutdowns to control th…
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Satellite maps can help nations make critical food production decisions amid coronavirus
17.04.20-
Food security
Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red…
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Covid-19—A wake-up call for strategic and inclusive WASH planning and financing in Nepal
17.04.20-
Health
Covid-19 is a wake-up call for Nepal to urgently prioritize strategic investments in inclusive water…
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An exploratory study of cost-benefit analysis of landscape restoration
17.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Cost-benefit analysis is a commonly applied approach used in the economic analysis of landscape rest…
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Inclusive food system transformations for healthy diets: National experiences with a global challenge
17.04.20-
Food security
This companion piece to a chapter in the International Food Policy Research Institute’s 2020 Globa…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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Covid-19 and food security | India and its jobs crisis
17.04.20-
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India is the country with the highest economic growth rate, albeit at a cost of…
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West Africa is threatened by a desert locust invasion
17.04.20-
Food security
East Africa is continuing to be invaded by desert locusts. A group of researchers from…
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Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
16.04.20-
Food security
“All the projects I’m working on now have the same objective: finding ways to avoid…
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