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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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8-11 September 2019: DryArc initiative co-design workshop
04.09.19Rabat, Morocco, 8-11 September 2019 – Eight CGIAR* centers are participating in a co-design works…
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Making local crops work for nutrition-sensitive agriculture
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Nutrition
Supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture through neglected and underutilized species is a new ope…
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Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
03.09.19Ensuring the access of small-scale farmers to products and potential benefits from genetic engineeri…
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Will genetic engineering contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
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Food security
Genetic engineering (GE)—the introduction or change of DNA, RNA or proteins by human manipulation …
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CGIAR at AGRF 2019
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), considered to be the world’s most important forum for…
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Fish in irrigation systems: an ancient practice may be the way of the future!
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Fisheries are critically important to nutrition and food security around the world. The total global…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety…
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Partnering for success: Sector unites to grow aquaculture in Timor-Leste
29.08.19At Timor-Leste’s 2nd National Aquaculture Forum in Dili, recently, stakeholders discussed ways to …
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African leaders rely on science and technology to improve food security
28.08.19Rural areas in Africa are facing unprecedented challenges. From high levels of rural-urban migration…
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Can boosting yields slow the global palm oil expansion and ease its environmental impacts?
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Environmental health
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Food security
Over the past two decades, global palm oil production has increased rapidly to meet rising…
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World Water Week 2019
26.08.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Happy World Water Week! Join us this week as we discuss innovative water solutions for…
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Reuters.com: Water pollution an ‘invisible threat’ to global goals, economists warn
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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World Bank report warns of the ripple effects of water pollution on the health, economies,…
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Independent.co.uk: World health chiefs call for more studies on microplastics in drinking water
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Research gap must be filled but meanwhile governments and businesses must urgently reduce plastic pr…
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Breaking Ground: Anani Bruce guards Africa’s maize harvest from insect pests
21.08.19Anani Bruce, maize entomologist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) sin…
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To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is…
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Raising a unified voice: Supporting African small-scale fishers and fish workers to be heard
21.08.19Bertha Kporvi (interviewee) at Sekondi market selling smoked fish in Sekondi, Ghana. Forty represent…
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‘I can’t catch enough fish’: Balancing water needs for farmers and fishers in Myanmar
21.08.19Water control infrastructure in Myanmar. These sluices are used to stop saltwater intruding up the…
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