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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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Misuse of the term ‘empowerment’ in daily conversations
28.01.19-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a world where ‘gender integration’ or ‘gender mainstreaming’ is prioritised and practic…
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Water security for all
25.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) will partner in a new project led by Newcastle…
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Can we beat the fall armyworm with lessons from India’s groundnut battle of the 80s?
25.01.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In the mid-80s, scientists battling the pest Spolit (Spodoptera litura) in India chanced upon an u…
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Journal article: Cash transfers increase trust in local government
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In their recent paper in World Development, David Evans, Brian Holtemeyer, and Katrina Kosec explore…
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City dwellers in Africa and Asia increasingly choose wheat, research shows
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The developing world’s appetite for wheat is growing swiftly, driven in part by rising incomes,…
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Communities still not at the core of restoration, experts say
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s a familiar refrain in environmental circles: to be effective and sustainable, landscape resto…
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Africa and Asia come together to lead a global initiative to diversify staples
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leading agriculture organizations from Africa and Asia have joined hands to take on a bold…
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Now, get critical seed data in one click
18.01.19-
Big data
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A modern digital seed ‘catalog’ and seed ‘roadmap’ tool is now available for information abo…
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Two-fold increase in varietal adoption in seven years – a chickpea tale from Ethiopia
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Adoption of improved chickpea varieties increased more than two-fold in seven years, shows data from…
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The transformative power of culinary innovation: Changing perspectives on traditional staples
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Roots, tubers and bananas are often seen as “traditional” foods. Yet their colors and flavors…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
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
Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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Protecting Congo’s botanical treasures
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Congo Basin - Nestled within Africa’s biggest rainforest lies what was once the world’s largest…
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Exploring the impacts of new U.S. and European agriculture policies
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Dec. 20, President Donald Trump signed the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill into law. Meanwhile,…
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Discussing the G20 Summit
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
International trade and investment emerged as the top priorities for this years’ G20 Summit, which…
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Competitive elections are good for democracy – just not every democracy
04.01.19-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were fierce, expensive and full of upsets, with political newcomers…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Hello Tractor and agricultural innovation
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For small-scale farmers, mechanization and other appropriate technologies have a big impact in agric…
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Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was…
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Decoding increased disease and insect-pest attacks on crops
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ICRISAT reaches out to farmers in four Indian states With an aim to record the…
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