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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary
12.04.19-
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Why linking with the private sector is important for the AVISA project Passion can be…
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Giving youth roots and wings for a better agricultural future in Kenya
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Programs provide income-generation opportunities for young Kenyan farmers From equipping young women…
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An Innovative messaging tool helps South India’s groundnut farmers post impressive yields
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An advisory tool, scalable for any number of farmers, has shown immense potential in facilitating…
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Policy seminar: Who will feed India?
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Who will feed India? The country’s population will soon be larger than China’s, economic growth…
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Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier
09.04.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cash transfers are promising interventions to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but more evide…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food systems transformation in South and Southeast Asia
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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the International Water Management …
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Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies
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Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow…
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“Communicate” the theme of the Annual Meeting of Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System project held at IITA
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The meeting which was themed “Communicate” and facilitated by Sue Davison, Director of Pipal Lim…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
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A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
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Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
05.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Well-meaning tenure reforms can’t quash land conflicts
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When countries revise their land and forest tenure laws, whereby rights are granted to people…
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Catalyzing partnerships for reforestation of degraded land
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In this second edition of the “Innovative finance for sustainable landscapes” interview series, …
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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
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Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What fertilizer application will give me the best returns? What maize crop variety should I…
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Agreement on multi-country seed-sharing reached
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed…
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Ask the innovators: Which agricultural practices work best locally?
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A new study by Bioversity International explores the power of ‘positive deviance’ in Tanzania. B…
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IRRI-IAARD to accelerate impact delivery with new rice research hub
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01 April, 2018 – BOGOR, INDONESIA - The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Direct…
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