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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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Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, are…
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Breaking Ground: Tawanda Mashonganyika unites crop breeders and market experts for more impactful varieties
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The low rate at which farmers adopt improved varieties is one of the biggest obstacles…
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Policy seminar: Who will feed India?
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Who will feed India? The country’s population will soon be larger than China’s, economic growth…
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Genetic breakthrough on tropical grass could help develop climate-friendly cattle farms
09.04.19The discovery of genes responsible for asexual reproduction in a tropical grass may reduce negative…
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Reducing intimate partner violence through cash transfers: The next research frontier
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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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CIFOR DG calls for ‘people-centric’ approach in landscape restoration
09.04.19Tenure security for the indigenous and traditional communities that are often the stewards of forest…
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Transforming food systems in Southeast Asia
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Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food system transformation in Southeast Asia
09.04.1909 April, 2019, Los Banos Laguna, Phillipines – WorldFish, the International Rice Research Institu…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food systems transformation in South and Southeast Asia
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the International Water Management …
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How countries around the world are leveraging agriculture to improve nutrition
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Food security
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Nutrition
At times, engaging the agriculture sector to improve nutrition seems like an uphill battle. In…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report launch: Rural revitalization is key to ending hunger, improving livelihoods worldwide
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
As the world faced a difficult 2018—with ongoing conflicts, climate-driven disasters, and politica…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
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Biodiversity
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of…
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New study examines drivers of bovine tuberculosis in smallholder peri-urban dairy farms in India
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Health
A new study published in BMC Public Health (March 2019) examines the community, system and…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
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Environmental health
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Food security
14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakehol…
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Kenyan agriculturist Su Kahumbu on the need for ‘pro-smallholder’ and ‘pro-soil’ policies
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Su Kahumbu with John Njure, a small-scale Kenyan dairy farmer (photo credit: iCow). TED Fellow…
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IRRI, WorldFish, and IWMI commit to a food system transformation in Southeast Asia
08.04.19LOS BANOS LAGUNA – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), WorldFish, and the Internatio…
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Improve soya bean yield
08.04.19-
Nutrition
SOYA bean has a high potential for income generation particularly for smallholder farmers who can…
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