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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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Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
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Environmental health
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India’s northwest region is the most important production area for two staple cereals: rice and…
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IITA and Sierra Leone sign agreement to boost national crop production and food security
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Food security
IITA has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Agriculture, …
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BOOK LAUNCH: Towards low-emission landscapes in Viet Nam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For immediate release Bogor, Indonesia, 21 March 2019— A new book celebrates ten years of contr…
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What’s good for business is good for forests in Indonesia
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Environmental health
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Food security
Scientists in Indonesia are demonstrating how better business opportunities for local communities ca…
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International Forests Day: Two heads look to a future of restoration
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Environmental health
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Food security
This article is written by Robert Nasi , Director-General of Center for International Forestry Resea…
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The unfulfilled promise of farmer-led irrigation: How to include those left behind
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Environmental health
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Food security
For more than a decade, we’ve known that when African farmers themselves invest in irrigation,…
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Google Blog: Analyzing 3K rice genomes characterized by DeepVariant
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project (3K RGP) is a collaborative, international research program that has…
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Trainings in climate services for agriculture reach all of Rwanda
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The human body can predict. You can look to the sky and know it will…
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Sustainable Summit 2019
21.03.19The fourth edition of The Economist’s Sustainability Summit will marshal the evidence to measure p…
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How restoration initiatives begin, again and again
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Environmental health
From teaching students how to use native species to restore landscapes in South America to…
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Egypt seminar: Addressing the double burden of malnutrition
20.03.19March 20, 2019 Event Post Egypt seminar: Addressing the double burden of malnutrition Mai Mahmoud…
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New publications: Biofortification of maize with provitamin A can reduce aflatoxin load
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Health
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Nutrition
Aflatoxins are harmful compounds that are produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, which can be f…
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Restoring drylands and empowering farmers: lessons from the Drylands Development Programme
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Successful land restoration needs human capacity, innovative technologies and mass participation. Th…
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We can provide economic incentives to address organic waste, IWMI/WLE tells Colombo business forum
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Environmental health
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Much of the developing world, including Sri Lanka, is facing an organic waste challenge, but…
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Optima Soy Africa launched to scale up production and commercialization of industrial soybean varieties
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Food security
Heralding a significant milestone for soybean research in Africa, the recent launch of the Optima…
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A CCAFS-informed public-private partnership reaches 300,000 farmers with climate information
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana continuously witness alarming poverty rates…
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EAT-Lancet Report Bangladesh launch: Transforming food systems to boost nutrition
19.03.19March 19, 2019 Event Post EAT-Lancet Report Bangladesh launch: Transforming food systems to boost nu…
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MuSIC workshop sounds positive note for visibility of small-scale fisheries
19.03.19Researchers, journalists and representatives from governments and civil societies from across Asia h…
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