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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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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
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BY GASHAW TADESSE ABATE, TANGUY BERNARD, ALAN DE BRAUW, NICHOLAS MINOT AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT Sma…
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The World’s Rice Bowl: Protected in Perpetuity
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(SINGAPORE – 12 October 2018) – THE WORLD’S LARGEST rice collection is to receive…
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IRRI and Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning highlight resource mobilization efforts to boost agri-food sector
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09 October 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh - The vital importance of investing in research for…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples, local communities may curb global warming: Reaction to IPCC Report
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Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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WEBINAR: Measuring policy distortions along agricultural value chains: Lessons from Africa and Asia
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The global agricultural sector is undergoing a transformation, with a rapid expansion of trade in…
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From science to scaling: 2017 Annual Report
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Nutrition
We are pleased to share the 2017 Annual Report from the CGIAR Research Program on…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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Evidence, interventions and impact: Building informal market food safety capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
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In September 2018, a Brussels Development Briefing featured discussions on "Food safety: A critical…
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Erosion is eating away at African farms. Here’s why measuring the damage is so important
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With severe weather on the rise, farmers and downstream water users are being besieged by…
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Using vignettes to explore gender issues related to food security and nutrition
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Gender equality
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Giulia Micheletti, Marlène Elias, and Jessica Raneri of Bioversity International describe a nu…
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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
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Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Governing forests for sustainability: What works?
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BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — What can 19 reviews assessing 1,200 research articles spanning o…
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Playing a bigger role in global monitoring of SDGs
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UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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Flagship Program 3 reviews progress, strategizes for 2019
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Food security
Creating complementarities and synergies and harmonizing approaches were the key takeaways from the …
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Model offers new approach to account for intangible factors driving microfinance group loan performance
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ, YANYAN LIU AND SARA GUSTAFSON Many households in developing countries lack…
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Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?
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Environmental health
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BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — Tofu, edamame, soy sauce – if this is what you…
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Breaking the dry-spell: integrating water and soil management for better yields and resilience
07.10.18-
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Ensuring that we make the best use of our water to produce enough food for…
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