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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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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
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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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New data offers insights into rural poverty and undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
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Big data
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Food security
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Nutrition
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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French delegation explores agribusiness collaboration with IITA Abuja
13.04.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IITA, the French Embassy in Nigeria, and the French Agriculture Research Centre for International …
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IFPRI Signs MoU with Indonesia’s Ministry of Planning
12.04.19-
Food security
April 12, 2019, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and th…
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A Homecoming for Rice
12.04.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…
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2019 Global Food Policy Report Malawi launch: Reforming agriculture for rural revitalization
12.04.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Rural people around the world continue to struggle with food insecurity, persistent poverty and ineq…
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The stories of ‘sorghum’ Agatha and ‘seed’ Mary
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Why linking with the private sector is important for the AVISA project Passion can be…
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Giving youth roots and wings for a better agricultural future in Kenya
12.04.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Programs provide income-generation opportunities for young Kenyan farmers From equipping young women…
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An Innovative messaging tool helps South India’s groundnut farmers post impressive yields
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An advisory tool, scalable for any number of farmers, has shown immense potential in facilitating…
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