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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-
Big data
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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Can you imagine a world of waste-wise cities? Accra leads the way
01.10.18-
Environmental health
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Health
The challengeWaste is piling up in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, which is home to…
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Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods
01.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…
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Fish farmers celebrate tilapia harvest in Timor-Leste
01.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Partnership for Aquaculture Development in Timor-Leste (PADTL), a five-year project funded by …
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El Salvador’s president urges U.N. support for decade of ecosystem restoration
30.09.18-
Environmental health
A major international effort to devote a decade to promoting the restoration and rehabilitation of…
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IFPRI Research Day: Brookings’ Homi Kharas on overcoming obstacles to meeting the SDGs
28.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR, KATRINA KOSEC AND JESSICA HECKERT It’s a troubled time for global food secur…
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IFPRI report: How China and Africa can promote cooperation in agricultural modernization
28.09.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG AND LIWEN ZHANG Agriculture is key to improving food security and reducing poverty…
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Empowering women farmers to lead agricultural transformation
28.09.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
A network of women farmer leaders are set to drive widespread adoption of innovations and…
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Priorities for Green Climate Fund identified by the Philippines
28.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Almost 400 initiatives were consolidated from government agencies to create the focus areas that wil…
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Working to boost food production in Africa: IRRI joins hands with CGIAR sister centers to help the continent achieve 90% rice self-sufficiency by 2025
27.09.18-
Food security
28 September 2018, Kenya - Today, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) opened a new…
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U.N. Champions of the Earth Award recognizes eco-defender Joan Carling
27.09.18-
Environmental health
Environment and indigenous rights defender Joan Carling has received the 2018 Champions of the Earth…
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Update from the field: Stories of change in nutrition in Vietnam
26.09.18-
Nutrition
Under way since September 2017, Stories of Change Vietnam aims to understand the history, contempora…
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Strengthening agricultural research in Kenya
26.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Agriculture plays a key role in Kenya’s economy and national development, accounting for 70% of…
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Preventing total forest loss in Uganda
26.09.18-
Environmental health
By 2050 Uganda will be completely without forest cover at the current rate of tree…
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IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
26.09.18-
Environmental health
While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and eggs are frequently…
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Video: Rice, malaria and Africa’s changing landscapes
25.09.18-
Health
Jo Lines, Reader of Malaria Control and Vector Biology at the London School of Hygiene…
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IFPRI, ILRI leaders: Sustainable small-scale livestock farming is essential to meeting the 21st-century’s protein needs
25.09.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY DAVID ARONSON While the potential harms of raising livestock and consuming meat, milk, and…
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Training on digital seed roadmap use enables delivery of quality seeds to smallholder farmers
25.09.18-
Big data
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
25.09.18-
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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