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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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Training on digital seed roadmap use enables delivery of quality seeds to smallholder farmers
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Timely access to quality seeds by smallholder farmers is a major enabler for agriculture in…
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ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on farm animal diversity for more sustainable and resilient global food systems
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), this week ma…
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Empowering women farmers through Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) in Northern Ghana
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Gender equality
A study in Northern Ghana revealed that lack of access to finance often hinders productivity…
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Land restoration in Africa builds momentum
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes…
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IRRI, WorldFish and Myanmar works together to optimize rice-fish farming productivity
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IRRI, together with WorldFish and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Irrigation of Myanmar …
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The future of land restoration is community-led, says WLE/ICRISAT at Tropentag
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Environmental health
Advancing the agenda of land restoration in Africa’s Sahel region, let alone globally, is no…
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IRRI discovers SWEET solution to bacterial blight
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Environmental health
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Food security
IRRI is leading innovations to provide adequate solutions to problems such as bacterial blight which…
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Mobile phone app launched to strengthen new insurance scheme for India’s farmers
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The scheme aims to provide more than half of Indian farmers with crop insurance within…
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What’s in it for gender researchers when it comes to UN Women’s gender and SDGs report?
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
UN Women’s 2018 flagship report on gender and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offers a…
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Webinar: Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Lessons learned from South-South knowledge exchange
20.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this webinar on October 4, we will summarize major lessons about mechanization learned from…
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Designing for gender inclusivity in video-enabled agricultural extension
20.09.18-
Gender equality
It was busier than usual in the village of Nabitula—25 km north of Namatumba in…
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IWMI scientist awarded for contributions to water policy in South Asia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) has named Tushaar Shah, a senior fellow with …
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‘High-yield’ farming costs the environment less than previously thought—and could help spare habitats
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
‘Breed More Dairy Cows’ poster from Vietnam. ‘New findings suggest that more intensive agricul…
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Traditional grazing-management practice makes an impact in southern Tunisia
19.09.18Policymakers should protect them for sustainable management of rangeland resources. View Full Articl…
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IRRI transforms rice breeding processes through market-oriented product profiling
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI is purposefully engaging with farmers to inform policies and establish standards that transform…
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More than a thousand vegetables, many of them forgotten
19.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Bioversity International and partners reveal that most of the world's vegetable species are poorly …
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Sharing China’s agricultural experience to help solve Africa’s development challenges
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural cooperation was one of the main topics at the recent 2018 Beijing Summit of the…
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Regenerating crop wild relatives in the Fertile Crescent
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Biodiversity
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Food security
ICARDA is regenerating massive amounts of crop wild relatives in their place of origin –…
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