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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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New groundnut varieties for improved resilience and market competitiveness
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Sayilesi Gwizima, 59, from Mchinij district, central Malawi, grows CG 7 groundnut variety. Not unlik…
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Characterizing fish supply and aquaculture systems in Myanmar as a guide to measuring environmental footprints
17.05.19Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors in the world and an…
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The human face of urban food systems
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Nutrition
The Urban Food Systems for Better Diets, Nutrition and Health program aims to provide evidence…
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Landscape restoration expensive, exhausting – essential
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
For more on GLF Kyoto, read about Act I and Act II. Landscape restoration is…
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It’s not too late to reverse climate change, but the clock is ticking
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Recent studies find that the prevention of irreversible climate catastrophes require the world’s p…
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In climate discussions, a pause to feel the change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A Brazilian panel on fashion streamed live from Sao Paolo. The Mayor of Kyoto announcing…
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IITA hosts Australia Awards symposium on irrigation and water resource management
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Food security
Irrigation specialists from Australia, Cameroon, Ghana, and Nigeria gathered for a symposium at II…
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In Petén, Guatemala, community forestry is viable business
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the space where forest conservation meets poverty reduction, win-win situations can be rare, espe…
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Emerging scientist: Lauren Pincus
15.05.19In the latest instalment of our new series on our early career research talents, we…
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No peace without a piece of the land
15.05.19This topic will be explored at the Global Landscapes Forum Bonn 2019 on 22–23 June. Register to…
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Innovating for change: Interview with Maria Andrade a sweetpotato champion
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Nutrition
An accomplished sweetpotato breeder and tireless advocate for improving the nutrition and wellbeing …
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In Petén, Guatemala, community forestry is viable business
15.05.19In the space where forest conservation meets poverty reduction, win-win situations can be rare, espe…
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The most important landscapes left are the ones ‘in between’
15.05.19From the announcement of a new U.N. ambition to restore ecosystems to a landmark report…
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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Ethiopian farmers help researchers select potato varieties that the market demands
14.05.19Potato is important to food security and a cash crop in Ethiopia with high potential…
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MUST WATCH: Celebrating Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tomorrow afternoon, 15 May 2019, on the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, campus of the International Livestock…
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Evidence from Malawi: Why agricultural and nutrition education programs should engage both women and men in households
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Gender norms and inequalities are an important factor in Malawi’s ongoing food security problems. …
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How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions
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Food security
On May 6, a global panel of scientists representing more than 130 nations released the…
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