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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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Agrobiodiversity essential to sustainable food systems for the future
25.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
A new book from MIT Press proposes and develops an expanded concept of agrobiodiversity, which,…
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CIP Trustee elected head of UN agriculture agency
24.06.19The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced on 23 June 2019…
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CIMMYT global partnership fights mutating wheat rust
24.06.19-
Food security
Stem rust, which occurs mainly in warm and humid conditions, is a serious biotic threat…
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Mozambique farmers enjoy greater yields as a result of IITA’s research
24.06.19IITA’s research in Mozambique has made much impact in rural and national development by ensuring…
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A weighty question: How fat are we? Why obesity estimates diverge
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Health
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Nutrition
This post is part of the FAO-IFPRI initiative on Food Systems and Obesity in Latin America and th…
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The role of phages: A fight against antibiotic resistance in poultry farms in Kenya
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Food security
Illustration of a bacteriophage (image credit: Flickr/Kevin Gill) In the early 1920s, William Twort …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
It’s 2019, the world is changing at a rapid pace, why agroforestry? With the changes…
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SERVIR experts on ecosystem management and land-use change attend 2019 GFW Summit
21.06.19The 2019 Global Forest Watch (GFW) Summit, held in Washington DC this week, opened with…
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Are high land rental costs pricing African youth out of agriculture?
21.06.19-
Gender equality
A new study shows that youth can face higher land rental prices than older farmers in Tanzania…
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Seeding entrepreneurship in groundnut farmers of south India
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Food security
ICRISAT and PJTSAU partner to set up Seed Business Ventures in Telangana Groundnut cultivation in…
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Decadal experiences in harnessing chickpea value chain in Ethiopia
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Food security
Over 6 million households benefit through the years of the Tropical Legumes Project In early…
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Why now is the moment to invest in nutrition to transform our food systems
21.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
One in a series of guest blog posts from leading voices in global development on achieving long-t…
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The missing middle: how enabling environments will translate global commitments into local action
21.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Delegates at Global Soil Week 2019 push for effective land governance, local governance structures, …
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‘Forget tree planting, start tree growing’
21.06.19-
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
21.06.19-
Health
A new study published in the June 2019 issue of the journal Lancet Planetary Health…
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Bird’s-eye view
20.06.19-
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
20.06.19-
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
19.06.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From its formation in 1995, the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Body has served as…
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