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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
14.05.25<p>Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that signific…
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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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Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher
26.10.18-
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Nutrition
A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced i…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
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AgHealth Rinsing fresh fish in Accra, Ghana (photo credit: ILRI/Kennedy Bomfeh). A new World Bank…
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New World Bank report says food-borne illnesses cost US$ 110 billion per year in low- and middle-income countries
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A new World Bank study, Safe food imperative: Accelerating progress in low- and middle-income countr…
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Photovoice: A high-impact research method that empowers women
26.10.18Photovoice was the focus of a special workshop at the FISH-sponsored 7th Gender in Aquaculture…
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Photovoice: A high-impact research method that empowers women
26.10.18The use of photos and comments by research participants to tell their own stories –…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
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Food security
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Nutrition
At the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue, experts discussed how to build sustainable seed systems and the…
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Ramsar Convention COP13
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.…
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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Report: Rising Demand for Social Protection Across Africa Requires Careful Fiscal Balancing, Research
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Addis Ababa, October 24, 2018: After a prolonged period of economic stagnation and decline, African…
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The role of cash transfers in building household resilience
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Almost three quarters of economically active rural populations in Africa south of the Sahara are…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
23.10.18-
Environmental health
Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Genetic markers identify the sex of yams and accelerate breeding
23.10.18Researchers have identified the genetic markers that distinguish the sex of yam plants, saving time…
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Strengthening farmers' seed systems in China
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Biodiversity
Dr. Yiching Song, Senior Researcher at the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy o…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
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As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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An agri-food revolution for tropical root and tuber crops
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
“When, where and how will tropical root and tuber crops lead to the next agri-food…
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‘Merry-go-round’ groups spin Kenyan women farmers to success
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Food security
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Gender equality
Last month’s report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change highlights wor…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Blue maize opportunities for Mexican farmers
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Blue maize is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexico’s food culture, especially in the central highlands.…
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