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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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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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The birth of an impatient and optimistic breed of community seed producers in Mali
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Biodiversity
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Jean Goita has come a long way since his days as a grain producer in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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What farmers want
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has been undertaking participatory mai…
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Effects of rising CO2 on protein, iron, and zinc availability in global diets
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
In recent years, the global fight against chronic hunger and undernutrition has focused increasingly…
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How RTB researchers try to develop the potential of RTB seed systems
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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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Improving dairy production through agroforestry and innovation
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Innovation platforms in Uganda are empowering smallholders to adopt agroforestry to increase dairy p…
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Addressing the effects of climate change on rice productivity: ADB, IRRI convene three-country policy workshops on scaling-up climate-smart practices for sustainable and intensive rice-based farming
18.07.19Workshops aimed at developing policy recommendations to promote widespread adoption of climat…
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Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
17.07.19Amid global efforts to intensify the nutritional value and scale of wheat production, scientists fro…
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Ghana’s ten percent agricultural expenditure saga: Why reported government expense shares are less than meets the eye
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Food security
In 2003, African countries signed the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAAD…
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What’s next for Sustainable Land Management in Ethiopia and globally?
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Environmental health
With Ethiopia and the world working towards more Sustainable Land Management (SLM), global experts m…
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DailyMaverick.co.za: As water systems fail across the country, rural communities look to self-supply
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Food security
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Gender equality
About half of municipal wastewater and water treatment works across South Africa are in a…
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Governing Myanmar’s inland fisheries: looking for the right balance
17.07.19With an extraordinary diversity of ecosystems and fish species, Myanmar ranks among the top-ten fish…
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What's the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
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Gender equality
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve …
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Forman Lecture: Harold Alderman on the pathways between childhood nutrition and economic growth
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Nutrition
Investing in young children’s nutrition yields substantial economic benefits to society. But that …
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PIM Achievements in 2018: Highlights
15.07.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Sound policies and well-functioning institutions and markets are essential to building sustainable a…
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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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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Drylands Development Programme: changed lives in the Sahel
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Many farming families in dryland Africa have been struggling to feed themselves and lead a…
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