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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
16.05.25-
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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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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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Conference: Confronting the challenges in transforming Ethiopia’s economy
30.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ethiopia has made substantial progress in recent decades, but is now confronting mounting economic c…
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How RTB researchers try to develop the potential of RTB seed systems
18.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Roots, tubers and bananas share one characteristic that unites them in the CGIAR Research Program…
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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United States and Mali launch five-year partnership for food security and livelihood resilience
03.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by Assoumane Maiga Beneficiary Aoussata Coulibaly (left) talks with the Malian minister of a…
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Understanding farmers’ willingness to pay for root, tuber and banana crop planting material
02.07.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Experimental auctions reveal the true willingness of farmers to pay (WTP) for various farming inputs…
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IITA Youth Agripreneurs program wins international award for youth empowerment innovations
01.07.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In recognition of its commitment to improving both agribusiness opportunities and creditworthiness o…
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Don't miss the BIMSTEC bus: Regional integration with South Asia-Southeast Asia bloc brings advantages for India
25.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Among the VIPs at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in for a second term May…
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
21.06.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Q & A with Lalisa Duguma Forests News caught up with climate change mitigation and…
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The WTO Dispute Settlement procedure is on the verge of crisis
19.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From its formation in 1995, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body has served as…
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Pineapples and peatlands
13.06.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But…
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DRC landscape restoration is electrifying!
12.06.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - For the 45 million people living in rural Democratic…
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Advocating for livestock, say its supporters, requires stronger narratives as well as robust evidence
11.06.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mary Nzomo, the chair of Kenya’s Agriculture County Executive Committee Members Caucus, holding th…
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Boosting Uganda’s investments in livestock development ‘healthy animals for healthy food and healthy people’
07.06.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Field visits to Kiruhura District, Uganda [photo credit: ILRI/Sonja Leitner] Today, policymakers, re…
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Employment, diversifying rural livelihoods, and youth: Lessons for Ghana from the 2019 Global Food Policy Report
05.06.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Throughout much of Africa south of the Sahara, rural households earn their incomes primarily from…
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Niger Minister meets India’s senior agriculture officials
27.05.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To strengthen ties between Niger and India in areas of agriculture, Mr Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Mini…
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ILRI annual report goes online
24.05.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI has published its annual report for 2018, and for the first time in its…
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Scaling up sustainable forestry projects key to attracting finance
24.05.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Continuing this new interview series on inclusive landscape finance, we hear from the corporate sect…
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Forest finance partnerships more productive than competition
23.05.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Benjamin Singer of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat shares his views on incl…
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