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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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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
16.05.25-
Big data
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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NEW STUDY: Air pollution from India’s stubble burning leads to USD 30 billion economic losses, poses significant health risk
01.03.19Mar 4, 2019 Press Release Health NEW STUDY: Air pollution from India’s stubble burning leads…
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Healthier and prosperous Africa: ‘AVISA’ project launched for faster agriculture gains in seven countries
01.03.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Tanzanian Minister for Agriculture calls for more public-private collaboration Greater yields, highe…
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‘Good science’: Using sex-disaggregated data in small-scale fisheries research and policy
01.03.19“When we only collect data on men, we miss half the story. If we want…
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IITA initiates STEP to encourage participation of school children in agribusiness
01.03.19-
Food security
At the 2018 Africa Food Prize (AFP) ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, IITA Director General, Dr…
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How smart are climate-smart villages?
01.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A study was conducted to present a framework that will evaluate the Climate-Smart Village (CSV)…
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India's nutrition programme excludes poorest households: Study (DailyHunt)
28.02.19Feb 28, 2019 In the News Gender Social Protection Nutrition India's nutrition programme exclude…
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Modi's $10.6 Billion Bounty Seen Giving Little Relief to Farmers (Bloomberg Quint)
28.02.19Feb 26, 2019 In the News Markets Modi's $10.6 Billion Bounty Seen Giving Little Relief…
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UPDATE: The agriculture secretary is wrong: There is no looming farm crisis (Morningstar)
28.02.19Feb 27, 2019 In the News Markets UPDATE: The agriculture secretary is wrong: There is…
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Consumer demand and processed foods in Nigeria: A complex, evolving picture
28.02.19-
Health
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Nutrition
Nigeria faces many of the challenges confronting other low and middle-income countries today. Rapid …
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Egypt conference: Opportunities and challenges of cluster-based development
28.02.19February 28, 2019 Event Post Egypt conference: Opportunities and challenges of cluster-based develop…
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Setting the stage for cassava disease monitoring: a baseline for Vietnam and Cambodia
28.02.19PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Researchers tracked Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus in Cambodia …
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An eleven-step program: Roadmaps for measurement, reporting and verification of climate-smart agriculture
28.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New country-driven assessments on national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of climate-smart agri…
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How lab-made fashion is changing landscapes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
Haute couture made out of orange peels. ‘Leather’ shoes and handbags grown from mushrooms. Diamo…
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How to wash your clothes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
So you’ve chosen your outfit with sustainability in mind. Maybe you agonized over the relative…
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NEW STUDY: India’s child nutrition program shows strides in utilization, but fewer gains in high malnutrition states
27.02.19Feb 28, 2019 India Press Release Gender Health Nutrition Poverty NEW STUDY: India’s child nutritio…
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New publications: Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia
27.02.19-
Gender equality
Despite formal decentralization, agricultural services in Ethiopia are generally “top-down,” cla…
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The missing seed market: Promoting improved seeds for women farmers
27.02.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
In Ethiopia, a World Bank study found that female farm managers produce 23 percent less yield per…
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Growing agriculture-nutrition community points the way to achieving SDG2 by 2030
27.02.19February 27, 2019 Issue Post Growing agriculture-nutrition community points the way to achieving SDG…
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