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Why we show up at climate COPs: Bridging local reality with global ambition
04.11.25-
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By Ma. Eliza J. Villarino, Rhys Bucknall-Williams, Laura Cramer, and Chiara Colombo Every yea…
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Bridging knowledge systems: Indigenous practices for sustainable foodways
21.10.25-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Indigenous peoples’ food systems have existed for millennia: far longer than the industrialised fo…
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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Ending hunger: A Fund, an Alliance, or… both?
18.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY EUGENIO DÍAZ-BONILLA One of the central aims of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) is…
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Historical dietary shifts offer lessons for future transitions in food systems
17.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
While the movement to transform food systems is gaining momentum, the avenues for doing so…
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Aquatic foods are essential for sustainable healthy diets, says UN Nutrition
17.05.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Aquatic foods are key to transforming global food systems in support of sustainable and healthy…
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Survey: COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
14.05.21-
Food security
BY CATHERINE RAGASA, ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND MICHAEL WANG While COVID-19 transmission dynamics and im…
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Water and cross-sectoral collaboration are key to food system transformations
14.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
At a series of dialogues convened as part of the UNFSS preparatory process, experts argued…
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Survey: Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families
13.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY FRANCISCO CEBALLOS, MANUEL HERNANDEZ AND CYNTHIA PAZ Global patterns and local variations of COVI…
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Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds
11.05.21-
Food security
In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biolo…
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Policy responses to COVID-19: What worked and how to build resilience for the future
11.05.21-
Food security
BY JOHN MCDERMOTT, DANIELLE RESNICK, NICHOLA NAYLOR AND JESSICA WALLACH The COVID-19 pandemic has pr…
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Solar for all: Enhancing access to affordable and sustainable solar-powered irrigation
08.05.21-
Environmental health
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Food security
Around 2 billion people globally are food insecure. Yet strategies to reduce chronic hunger and…
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Global Food Policy Report 2021: The challenges of food system transformation
07.05.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY YING VISSER AND MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s recently-released 2021 Global Food Policy Repor…
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Community participation: greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
05.05.21-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The rolling plains of the Aba Gerima watershed cover the upper portion of Lake Tana…
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Supporting the Food System Dialogues for Honduras ahead of UN summit
04.05.21-
Food security
We have never had a better understanding of the need to transform food systems. The…
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The Global Food Systems 5050 Initiative: Tracking and promoting progress on gender equality amid food systems transformation
03.05.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY JEMIMAH NJUKI Women play critical roles in food systems—as producers, processors, traders, cons…
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WorldFish Science Director Prof. Eddie Allison named among world’s top cited
29.04.21-
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Prof. Eddie Allison, WorldFish’s interim director of science and research, was named in the worl…
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Survey: A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic
27.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY SHYAMAL CHOWDHURY, NAHIAN BIN KHALED, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, SHAHIDUR RASHID AND HONOR DEARLOVE Ban…
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The golden eggs that keep on giving
25.04.21-
Food security
Ask any child who is well versed in Aesop’s fables and you will learn that…
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A good pearl millet hybrid gets even better
23.04.21-
Food security
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Health
A team of researchers in India has bettered an immensely popular pearl millet hybrid, HHB…
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Gender researchers highlight approaches to achieving equal opportunities
22.04.21-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) are a WorldFish-pioneered innovation that has been in contin…
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