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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
16.05.25-
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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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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How big companies can help to end hunger
26.05.21-
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Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD AND CARIN SMALLER The number of people who go to bed hungry…
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Improving Ethiopian Malt Barley in Ethiopia for Better Livelihoods and Economy
26.05.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A new malt barley handbook published by ICARDA aims at solving challenges surrounding malt barley…
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Survey: COVID-19’s varied impacts on fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains in Senegal
25.05.21-
Food security
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Health
BY ANNA FABRY,KAAT VAN HOYWEGHEN, HENDRIK FEYAERTS,IDRISSA WADE AND MIET MAERTENS There has been muc…
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G7 foreign and development ministers meeting spotlights CGIAR
25.05.21-
Food security
G7 foreign and development ministers named CGIAR as an example of a multilateral research institutio…
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Innovative Food Systems Solutions portal launch: Healthy diets for all on a healthy planet
25.05.21-
Food security
Explore and contribute to the IFSS portal and connect to the global community working to…
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Buying into new seed
24.05.21-
Food security
The goal of the out-of-stock study is to improve an understanding of how farmers make…
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Gender equality, women’s empowerment, and food systems: Consensus and gaps in the literature
24.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI, HAZEL MALAPIT, SARAH EISSLER AND JESSICA WALLACH A large volume of research…
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Agriculture and biodiversity conservation: five critical factors for success
22.05.21-
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The United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May reminds us that "When…
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Dryland crop technology to rescue drought-hit crop-livestock farmers in Zimbabwe
21.05.21-
Food security
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Health
Climate change-induced droughts in Zimbabwe over the last two decades has hit resource-poor farmers …
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Model: Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea
20.05.21-
Food security
BY EMILY SCHMIDT AND PAUL DOROSH In general, the COVID-19 pandemic has had only modest impacts…
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Charting a productive, sustainable future for small farms amid food system transformation
19.05.21-
Food security
BY XINSHEN DIAO,THOMAS REARDON, ADAM KENNEDY AND JESSICA WALLACH While urbanization is shrinking ru…
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Global Food and Hunger Challenges Projected to Increase Mortality, Disability by 2050
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Report…
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Boosting Malawi’s aquaculture production for food security
18.05.21-
Biodiversity
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Although Malawi has an extensive history of fish farming spanning a century, the nation’s smallhol…
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ACIAR Australia video highlights successful investments in global wheat research
18.05.21-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Australian Council for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), a longtime partner of the C…
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Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
17.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
17.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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