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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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Can creation of a separate Indian Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries bring fresh momentum in growth?
08.08.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The creation of a separate ministerial portfolio for animal husbandry, dairying, and fisheries for t…
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Preparing Ghanaian cocoa farmers for changing climate conditions
08.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
CIAT collaborates with CocoaLink to help young farmers mitigate the negative effects of climate chan…
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Second national aquaculture forum takes place in Timor-Leste
08.08.198 Aug 2019…
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‘One Nation One Ration Card’ can transform lives in India
06.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
On June 27, India Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced plans to move towards a system of…
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2019 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World: Persistent hunger and obesity increase the global burden of malnutrition
05.08.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
After decades of steady decline, the trend in world hunger—as measured by the prevalence of…
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New CIMMYT pre-commercial hybrids available from Asia maize breeding programs
05.08.19-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved…
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Benefits from trees regreen land and livelihoods
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Smallholders in Ethiopia are set to benefit from development of tree value-chains. Wood-fuel, round …
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Rice Doctor -An innovative technological approach to enhance rice production
05.08.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Crop losses due to insect pests and diseases are a major threat to farming communities…
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Protect our food. Fund the seed.
02.08.19-
Food security
“It is the seed that controls the system, not the other way around.” Chef and…
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Transforming sorghum and millet cropping systems through diffusion of quality seed and best bet agronomic practices
02.08.19Eight months of the year was the most farmer Seydou Yolo’s harvest would last to…
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Convention on Biological Diversity adopts indicator to track conservation of useful plants
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developed by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and the Crop Trust, the indicator pro…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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Global Food Policy Report–EAT-Lancet Commission launch in The Hague: Rural revitalization and sustainable diets
01.08.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
How do two major reports with different emphases on the relationship between nutrition and agricultu…
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Joint Grasslands and Rangelands Congress will be held in Nairobi in Oct 2020
01.08.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Kenya State Department of Livestoc…
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Transform Nutrition West Africa publishes evidence brief on Nigeria's nutrition policy
01.08.19-
Nutrition
To help policymakers in Nigeria better understand the direction of nutrition-relevant policies and t…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
31.07.19-
Gender equality
How can social protection programs be truly inclusive? Taking a social inclusion lens to agricultura…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
31.07.19-
Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiency affects a large section of the Indian population, as it does in many…
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After 75 years, agriculture and nutrition meet again
31.07.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the third year in a row, the recently-released FAO State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition repo…
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