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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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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
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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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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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V4CP meeting: The power of hard evidence in impacting systems change
12.07.19On June 13-14, SNV and IFPRI held our annual Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) meeting to refle…
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CIAT and Grupo Papalotla signed an agreement for the development of new tropical pasture hybrids
12.07.19As global population grows so will demand for animal protein (Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, 2009…
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CIAT leads project to reduce deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
12.07.19The initiative, jointly coordinated with the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and Ministry o…
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African policy makers turn on to biofortification
12.07.19Biofortification, or the genetic improvement of crops for better nutritional value, is an effort tha…
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US Government renews commitment to Mali’s food security and agriculture-led economic growth
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Food security
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Health
Renewing its commitment to investments in Mali, USAID’s partnership declaration event at the US Em…
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Understanding farmer concerns to improve pest and disease management
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Food security
Insect pests and diseases are high on the list of concerns for farmers of root,…
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Is climate-smart agriculture the silver bullet to attract youth to agriculture?
11.07.19With the average African farmer’s age hitting nearly 60 years, the sector’s stakeholders have be…
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Biofortified staples may hold the key to India’s rural malnutrition
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Health
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Nutrition
The national elections in India may well be over, but the persistent issue of malnutrition…
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Ernesto Morón: cultivating timber trees in the Peruvian Amazon
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Recently, researchers of the FuenteS project visited the farm of Ernesto Morón, who is producing…
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Mastercard partners with USADF and CIAT to open up new opportunities for smallholder farmers across Africa
10.07.19Kampala, Uganda July 10, 2019 - Mastercard has today announced the signing of two public-private…
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System effects modelling helps identify challenges, impacts and strategies for improving food safety
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Health
In May 2019, food safety researchers from Cambodia and Vietnam participated in a training on…
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A milestone in developing food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia
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Nutrition
Efforts to develop food-based dietary guidelines for Ethiopia reached a milestone in May 2019 when…
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Effective farmers confronting climate change
10.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Recent research from diverse contexts points to the importance of “local” in driving climate ada…
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AfricaRice hybrid rice varieties spark seed companies’ interest in Africa
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
9 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A set of four high-yielding hybrid rice varieties with…
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