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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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Innovating with Roots, Tubers and Bananas
11.04.22-
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We are delighted to announce the publication of the book “Root, Tuber and Banana Food…
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A Green Light for Desert Farming Collaboration
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At a High Level KIADPAI/CGIAR side-event during the 7th International Date Palm Conference in Abu…
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The Future Seeds LEED Certification
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Future Seeds is the first ever genebank building in the world built with the goal…
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WorldFish pilots last-mile feed business models to boost aquaculture in Zambia
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Smallholder fish farmers in Zambia face a myriad of challenges, but one of their biggest…
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Protecting Scarce Dryland Water
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ICARDA is grateful to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Fores…
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Deadlock over UN treaty for high seas keeps developing countries at a disadvantage
19.03.22-
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The livelihoods of millions worldwide continue to be at risk after UN Member States failed…
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Farmers Can Get Ahead of Locust Swarms
09.03.22-
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ICARDA is grateful to the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture and JDC-GRID for…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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To protect the world’s vital wetlands, we must invest in science
31.01.22-
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As the world prepares to celebrate World Wetlands Day, IWMI reflects on the transformative power…
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A ‘probiotic’ approach to agriculture is better for people and planet (commentary)
26.12.21-
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Reversing biodiversity loss is a critical component of limiting climate change and vice versa, but…
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Food Systems Transformation Must Be Grounded in Healthy Soil
13.12.21-
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A world without healthy soil is a world in which little grows. Yet, for those…
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How healthy soils can address the climate crisis
03.12.21-
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Although agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change, it is also a significant contributor to…
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Social Soil
02.12.21-
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The SWC@Scale project is funded by GIZ as part of the PROSOL global program, and carried out alo…
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COP26’s Huge Strides towards Climate-Friendly Agriculture
21.11.21-
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COP26, the 26th yearly round of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate negotiati…
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The big zoom-out: Monitoring river health at the global scale
20.11.21-
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Traditional river health monitoring is carried out in situ, with habitats and species assessed at…
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Integrating grey and green water infrastructure for inclusive sustainable development
25.10.21-
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In 1957, Karl Wittfogel hypothesized that the emergence of human civilization is linked partially, b…
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A new publication in Nature Reports on how Farming with Alternative Pollinators improves smallholder farmers' incomes significantly
19.10.21-
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An open-access paper in Nature reports on the significant advantages of using the low-cost Farming…
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Business, researchers, farmers, NGOs and governments team up for sustainable cacao in South America
12.10.21-
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The Agroecological Regenerative Cocoa (ARC) project, which involves CGIAR centers, Conservation Inte…
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