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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Ojanji Wandera16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
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ICRISAT declared as Centre of Excellence for tribal development
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)29.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ministry of Tribal Affairs Govt. of India declared ICRISAT as Centre of Excellence to support…
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The Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Index: Indicators for the start of a global, badly needed, conversation
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)29.06.18-
Gender equality
Tanzanian farmer with her flock of chickens (photo by BRAC via Global Giving). The Women’s…
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New Colombia green belt provides protective barrier for Amazon biome
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)29.06.18-
Environmental health
A 9.2 million hectare landscape restoration corridor in Colombia will link the borders of Brazil…
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RiceStrawPH: IRRI teams up with Philippine partners for sustainable rice straw management project
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)29.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Philippines produces 15.2 million tons of rice; leaving 11.3 tons of rice straw spread…
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Better data for better nutrition
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)29.06.18-
Nutrition
A new tool, developed by Bioversity International and partners in Kenya, will ease the burden…
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Staple Crop Yields Alone Will Not Solve Poverty
CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC)28.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
An exclusive focus on improving staple crop yields in developing countries is increasingly questione…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)28.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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Tanzania unveils high iron beans under International Potato Center led initiative
International Potato Center (CIP)28.06.18Tanzania has officially released two high-iron and zinc bean varieties. The Minister for Agriculture…
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Three questions on ecotourism with Robyn Nixon
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)27.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As environmental responsibility increasingly pervades lifestyle habits – from fashion to farmers m…
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Rice stakeholders highlight importance of creating value-adding activities for rice
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)27.06.18-
Food security
In Asia, achieving food security remains an important issue, as the consumption of rice appears…
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Call to Action on Adolescent Nutrition demands better data
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)27.06.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SUNNY S. KIM, DEANNA OLNEY AND MARIE RUEL Adolescence is a critical period of biological and…
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Walmart Foundation invests nearly US$2M in ‘Farmer Market Readiness Program’ in India
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)27.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over 6000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh will move to an improved business model for better…
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Is agricultural adaptation on track to meet the future food production challenge?
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)27.06.18-
Food security
Small-scale farmers are making small changes in their agricultural practices. Is this enough to incr…
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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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IFPRI Congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on Joint World Food Prize Award
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congrat…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)26.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)26.06.18-
Food security
Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flin…
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