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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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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
06.07.18-
Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
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Food security
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Nutrition
India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher iron and zinc than regular s…
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Translating food safety research into policy action in Vietnam
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Health
The agri-food sector, particularly livestock, plays an important role in the economy, livelihoods an…
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Agroforestry with refugees in Uganda: overwhelming demand and a huge desire to plant
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Environmental health
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Food security
“There is space for trees in refugee settlements,” Clement Okia told officials, NGOs, donors and…
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Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day
06.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…
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India gets its first biofortified sorghum
05.07.18-
Nutrition
Hyderabad, 5 July 2018| India’s first biofortified sorghum (jowar), with significantly higher ir…
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Mutating diseases drive wheat variety turnover in Ethiopia, new study shows
05.07.18Rapidly emerging and evolving races of wheat stem rust and stripe rust disease—the crop’s deadli…
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RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…
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Damned if you don’t!
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Environmental health
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Health
Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Gaharu: A migration story
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - When the “gaharu rush” began, the migrants came in their hundreds. Suddenly, in…
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Targeting open defecation, other factors accelerates anemia reduction among pregnant women in India
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Health
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT AND SUMAN CHAKRABARTI One in two pregnant women in India are anemic. This…
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Climate change impacts on rice in Africa
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Irrigated rice production in East Africa is projected to increase slightly due to CO2 fertilization…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
02.07.18-
Gender equality
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
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Momentum for U.N. decade of ecological restoration grows ahead of Nairobi GLF
02.07.18-
Environmental health
A proposal by Brazil to pool global resources and dedicate 10 years to promoting the…
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Lessons in scaling up agriculture and building sustainability from Brazil and beyond
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD The agricultural changes in Brazil, Asia, and the United States in recent…
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Adding colour to rural diets year round with the Seasonal Food Availability Booklet
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Biodiversity
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Food security
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Nutrition
From focus group to plate: a new tool developed by Bioversity International to enhance the…
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Improving control of a chicken disease supports the livelihoods of Kenya’s women
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Women play critical roles in the small-scale livestock systems that remain ubiquitous in the develop…
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