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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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A new approach to modeling: Placing sustainable development at its core
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Big data
In June, a team of experts in modeling and sustainable development policy making (including IFPRI's…
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When information leads to better governance in rural areas—and when it doesn’t
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Gender equality
Anyone who doubts the power of information need look no further than the Arab Spring…
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Impact study demonstrates Bt brinjal eggplant variety helps farmers in Bangladesh earn more with less pesticide
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Food security
Eggplant, known as brinjal in Bangladesh, is a high-value crop that is widely grown and consumed t…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
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Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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Do we have enough science to mitigate water crises?
18.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We need to do a much better job at communication, not only within the water…
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The way forward for climate-smart agriculture
18.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture brought together 410 participants fro…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Measuring the climate impact of our diet choices
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The recently concluded 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture was not a usual sc…
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Official Launch of CGIAR’s “Crops to End Hunger” Initiative at Borlaug Dialogue
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
CGIAR announced its new global initiative, Crops to End Hunger, this week at the World…
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Book launch: Ghana’s prospects for economic transformation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the past 30 years, Ghana has experienced steady growth in per capita income and…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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IITA-Rwanda releases a digital application in the fight against bacterial wilt disease in bananas
17.10.19IITA-Rwanda, together with partners, has launched a digital Application which will serve more than 5…
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New study reveals biodiversity benefits crop production
17.10.19Over the past two decades, approximately 20 percent of the Earth's cultivated surfaces have become…
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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
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Food security
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Nutrition
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
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Environmental health
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Health
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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