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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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FoodSTART+ featured in the latest iMPACT magazine issue
22.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
FoodSTART+ Principal Investigator, Diego Naziri, and CIAT Market Access Specialist, Brice Even share…
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IFPRI/A4NH at the Purdue Global Hunger Colloquium: Policy innovation is key to accelerating progress
22.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Leading figures in the global fight against hunger gathered at Purdue University April 10-11 for…
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EARTH DAY: Can Sumatran elephants and people coexist?
22.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Palembang, Indonesia – Present day South Sumatra looks a lot different from its heyday as…
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Five ways food systems can make or break our Earth
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
From the year 2013 to 2016, Lao banana exports increased to $200 million, a tripling in…
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YIIFSWA-II hosts 3rd Annual progress review and planning meeting in Accra
21.04.19-
Food security
IITA, lead implementer of the Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa…
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Earth Day 2019: Building common ground on sustainable governance of commons
19.04.19-
Environmental health
The celebration of Earth Day (April 22) reminds us that all species, including Homo sapiens, shar…
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Mobilizing youth for forestry development
18.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Youth leaders from the Asia and the Pacific discussed the crucial role of young people…
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Eating stories: On the contested future of meat–with, and without, feet
18.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Sketch of three people sharing a meal by Vincent Van Gogh (Van Gogh Gallery). In…
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A ‘Livestock Master Plan’ is MISSION CRITICAL for India’s state of Bihar
18.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Shama Khatoon, outside her goat shed in Bihar, is a widow supporting her family through…
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Who benefited from the Congo's peace dividend?
17.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In several respects, the first decade of the 21st century was a golden opportunity for…
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To manage El Nino-related crop distress in eastern and southern Africa, invest in drought-tolerant seeds and better soil and water care
17.04.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
To mitigate the impact of the current drought affecting millions of farmers living in Kenya…
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Are we reducing hunger in the world?
17.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
It is now clear that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development…
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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests
17.04.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…
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The research-practitioner divide: Why we are still optimistic
16.04.19-
Food security
Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects for…
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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas
16.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
16.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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Memorandum of Understanding marks invigorated partnership for CGIAR and Republic of Korea
16.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
CGIAR and the Rural Development Administration (RDA) of the Republic of Korea, have signed a…
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Emerging scientist: Surendran Rajaratnam
15.04.19-
Gender equality
Understanding why people do what they do and what they can do differently to improve…
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