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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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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Q & A with Lalisa Duguma Forests News caught up with climate change mitigation and…
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New study finds that urban wildlife may be a significant vector for antimicrobial resistant bacteria
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Health
A new study published in the June 2019 issue of the journal Lancet Planetary Health…
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Bird’s-eye view
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Food security
A new study from researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) shows…
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Zoom in on Borneo ecology
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The forests of Borneo are some of the most ecologically diverse in the…
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The WTO Dispute Settlement procedure is on the verge of crisis
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From its formation in 1995, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body has served as…
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Countries make progress on carbon reduction pledges, but much work remains to be done
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
By all accounts, countries’ official pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—the nationally d…
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Transforming farmers and plant doctors into pest-smart agents in their communities
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers and plant doctors in Ekxang Climate-Smart Village (CSV) in Laos were trained on biologically…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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Voices: stories attesting to sustainable production transformation in the Amazon
17.06.19In its final stage, the Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project developed a platform called …
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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Special event: New IFPRI research program explores emerging problems of urban food systems
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Nutrition
The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in…
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Can you trust the numbers?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestati…
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What developing countries can learn from Europe’s experience with rural revitalization
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) will be the focus of a June 19 European Development…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
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Biodiversity
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Gender equality
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In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Scientists unravel genome and diversity of whitefly vector behind viral diseases devastating cassava in Africa
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Food security
As part of efforts to control the spread of the two viral diseases attacking cassava…
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Combating drought in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Around the world, climate variability provides increasingly challenging environments that farmers mu…
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Borderline
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Food security
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Gender equality
Ghana - Part VII of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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How over 500 women in south India built sustainable livelihoods in face of drought
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
POWERGRID-ICRISAT project in Karnataka empowers through integrated watershed management Farm-depende…
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