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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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-
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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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FTA welcomes new Independent Steering Committee member Richard Stanislaus Muyungi
20.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) has welcomed a new member…
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Farmer science accelerates climate adaptation
19.02.19-
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A new study in PNAS addresses the challenge of climate adaptation in a way that…
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Who gains from an increasingly industrialized food system?
19.02.19February 19, 2019 Issue Post Who gains from an increasingly industrialized food system? Rob Vos…
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AfricaRice Science Week 2019 adopts a forward-looking perspective
19.02.19-
Food security
Over five days, more than 70 participants, consisting mainly of AfricaRice scientists, as well as…
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Why irrigation is key to feeding Africa south of the Sahara's growing population
19.02.19February 19, 2019 Issue Post Why irrigation is key to feeding Africa south of the…
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Lawrence Haddad on the ‘Great Food Transformation’ promoted by the EAT Lancet ‘planetary health diet’
19.02.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Cutlery, by Yusuke Yonezu. Lawrence Haddad, executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved …
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Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
19.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
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New infographics illustrate impact of wheat blast
18.02.19-
Food security
Wheat blast is a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease that threatens food safety and security…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that…
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Water security for sustainable dryland development
18.02.19-
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The search for options to boost water productivity…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
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The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
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Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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Emerging scientist: Afrina Choudhury
16.02.19As a global leader in fisheries and aquaculture research, science is at the forefront of…
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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
15.02.19-
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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