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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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Six-million-dollar investment to tackle the causes of foodborne disease in Ethiopia
15.02.19-
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Nutrition
Principal food safety investigators conducted a press conference to launch four food safety program…
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Triple S method secures sweetpotato planting material for farmers
15.02.19“Next season I will fill my farm, and my father’s farm, with sweetpotato,” says Bezabih…
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Talk shows and text messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
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Environmental health
This story is the second in a three-part series. Read part one, Barking up the…
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Opinion: Measuring the unintended benefits of a development program (Devex)
14.02.19Feb 8, 2019 In the News Opinion: Measuring the unintended benefits of a development program…
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Milling process takes nutrients out of rice (Dhaka Tribune)
14.02.19Feb 13, 2019 In the News Milling process takes nutrients out of rice (Dhaka Tribune)…
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Dr. Shenggen Fan a new Panel Member for Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (African Daily Voice)
14.02.19Feb 14, 2019 In the News Dr. Shenggen Fan a new Panel Member for Global…
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Agrarian crisis: Direct transfer more efficient, effective than input subsidies (Financial Express)
14.02.19Feb 12, 2019 In the News Agrarian crisis: Direct transfer more efficient, effective than input…
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Tree love this Valentine’s Day
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Environmental health
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Resear…
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‘We can’t modernize, regulate or train our way to food safety in Africa’—ILRI epidemiologist Silvia Alonso
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Food security
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Health
Written by Silvia Alonso Veterinary epidemiologist Silvia Alonso works at the International Livesto…
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Valentine’s Day Special: Can chocolate survive climate change?
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Environmental health
Chocolate is at the top of shopping lists for Valentine’s Day, most of us gifting…
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The critical and complex need to address food safety in Africa
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Food security
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Health
Solving the health problems of foodborne disease in Africa is only part of the food…
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Dams can mimic the free flow of rivers, but risks must be managed
13.02.19Originally published as an Op-Ed on The Conversation. Written by Matthew McCartney, CGIAR System O…
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IFPRI Director General, Dr Shenggen Fan, joins a Global Panel
12.02.19Feb 14, 2019 Press Release IFPRI Director General, Dr Shenggen Fan, joins a Global Panel…
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New paper explores green growth strategy for the Philippines
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
A new paper examines the economywide impact of promoting renewable power generation in the Philippin…
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US Ambassador visits Carp Genetic Improvement Program in Bangladesh
12.02.19The US Ambassador to Bangladesh Earl R. Miller has visited the Carp Genetic Improvement Program…
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Fresh funds to help clean up ocean plastics in Asia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
It might not sound quite like a fairytale romance, but the match between millions of…
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Insect extinction, Japanese tree revelations, and world’s smelliest fruit
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Forests News delves into last week's headlines from around the globe: Insects could vanish within…
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Major breakthrough for farmers and scientists as Nigerian biotech body approves commercial release of genetically modified cowpea
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Food security
Following more than two decades of research, field trials, and risk assessment by multiple organizat…
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