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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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Finding agroecology in practice on vegetable farms in Kiambu County, Kenya
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Nutrition, health & food security
Kiambu is a major vegetable-producing county in Kenya and one of the main sources of…
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HER+ Initiative dissects women’s empowerment and climate resilience in West Bengal using Pro-WEAI
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Gender equality
(04 December 2024) – Under the CGIAR Gender Impact Platform’s Methods Module, the CGIAR Initiati…
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IRRI and DA-FPA ink MOA on farm drone training material development
12.12.24LOS BANOS, Philippines (December 3-4, 2024) — IRRI and the Philippine Department of Agriculture’…
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IRRI eyes stronger, long-term sustainable rice and climate action partnership with Thailand
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Food security
BANGKOK, Thailand, 6 December 2024 — Leaders from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)…
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Responsible governance through engaging with farmers
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Environmental health & biodiversity
“Desertification is one of the biggest challenges farmers are facing,” said Grace Gitau, farmer …
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Smallholders, big impact: Building resilience against biodiversity, climate, and land crises
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Smallholder farmers, including family farmers, fisherfolk, forest dwellers, and pastoralists, produc…
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Driving sustainable innovations: How policy can transform communities and ecosystems
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Policy is essential to fostering innovations that address pressing global challenges, from food inse…
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Six synergies to consider for groundwater governance
11.12.24By Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Bryan Bruns December 11, 2024 Groundwater is a vital common pool resource…
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Breeding and Research Services publishes 13 standard operating procedures for trialling and nursery
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Nutrition, health & food security
Breeding Resources Initiative, through its Business Process Management unit, developed 13 Standard O…
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Agroecological transitions through science, practice, and social movements in India, Peru, and Senegal
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Authors: Alejandra Arce (CIP), Raphael Belmin (CIRAD), Sarah Freed (Alliance Bioversity Internationa…
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Pioneering a sweet revolution: Rwanda validates its sweetpotato roadmap
11.12.24On November 28, 2024, Kigali’s Park Inn Hotel was abuzz with energy as stakeholders gathered…
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Peskas: The fisheries monitoring system making waves in Asia and Africa
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
A short film on the success of the Peskas fisheries monitoring system in Timor Leste…
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Guinea grass reference genome to open new territories in forage breeding
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Environmental health & biodiversity
By Rosa Jauregui, Tropical Forage Plant Breeder, Urochloa spp. and Megathyrsus maximus, the Alliance…
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Why early-stage on-farm sparse testing could be a game changer for crop breeding in Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Christian Werner, Jill Cairns - CIMMYT Over 80% of the world’s 570…
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Journal Special Issue Published
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Advancing Transformative Adaptation through Social Equity: Land, Water and Food Systems in the Globa…
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Empowering data-driven breeding: Advanced biometrics, quantitative genetics, and digital tools training for WCA NARES partners
11.12.24The Biometrics, Quantitative Genetics, and Data Management Training workshop for the Breeding Inform…
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Climate, Peace, and Fragility in Egypt: Shaping a Path Forward
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Towards an Integrated Research Agenda Egypt faces a confluence of challenges compounding with cl…
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Participatory GIS is transforming resource management and gender inclusion in Isiolo County, Kenya
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Adaptation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the arid landscapes of Isiolo County in the upper Eastern region of Kenya, managing…
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