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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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How the data revolution could help design better agronomic investments
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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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Global Report on Food Crises: 113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute hunger in 2018
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The world’s humanitarian assistance and spending needs have more than doubled over the past decade…
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Assigning value to nature’s bounty
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Toward more inclusive water management in Kenya’s Tana River Basin.…
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Agreement on multi-country seed-sharing reached
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Food security
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia (9–10 June 2017) - Two more countries have joined a regional seed…
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Using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework to assess land health in Rwanda
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The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework methodology, developed by World Agroforestry, is one of …
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World Bank Land and Poverty Conference: Stand For Her Land
02.04.19At this week’s 20th Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference in Washington DC, a…
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Putting seasonal forecasts in the hands of Rwandan farmers
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“We started planting our crops in the first week of February!” exclaimed a farmers cooperative…
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Seeds of Change Conference
02.04.19An interdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners in all fields of agriculture inclu…
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Exploring creative new approaches to combat food loss and waste
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Food security
Food loss and waste is a huge global problem found everywhere along the chain from…
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More bang for the climate buck: study identifies hotspots for adaptation funding
01.04.19By combining the latest crop models and local expertise in Vietnam, Uganda and Nicaragua, scientists…
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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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Jinping soy price threatens Amazon, Trump, and methane releasing trees
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Forests News pick of stories from around the globe: Between the land of the free…
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Technologies for land restoration showcased
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With Africa lagging behind in efforts to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, widespread…
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Gendered time and energy expenditure in rural livelihoods: Different sides of the same coin?
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Understanding how women and men allocate their time and energy is important for creating gender-sens…
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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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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea (Reuters)
31.03.19Mar 26, 2019 In the News New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition…
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Report reveals global malnutrition on the rise (CNBC Africa)
31.03.19Mar 27, 2019 In the News Report reveals global malnutrition on the rise (CNBC Africa)…
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