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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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Stakeholders learn about sustainable rice straw management in Vietnam
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Rice straw management remains to be one of Vietnam’s biggest agricultural challenges. On average, …
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Reversing Land Degradation by Scaling up Evergreen Agriculture in Africa (Regreening Africa)
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The UN General Assembly declared 17th June the World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) to…
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SUPERSEAS project identifies governance components of area-based management
20.06.18Solving complex problems in the aquaculture sector requires integration between actors that do not n…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cameroon - Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood…
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World Refugee Day: Rohingya in Bangladesh camp display entrepreneurial spark
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year’s World Refugee Day (June 20) marks a grim reality: The global refugee crisis continue…
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Sri Lanka, IRRI set priority areas to restore rice self-sufficiency
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Food security
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 19 June 2018— The Sri Lankan Ministry of Agriculture and the International…
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TheDiplomat: The Impact of Migration on Water Scarcity in Central Asia
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Environmental health
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What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?…
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Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
A new report was published this month on the value of ensuring consumption of meat,…
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Risky business: Tenure issues main deterrent for investment
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At the finance-focused Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium, land tenure was the primar…
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A4NH releases its 2017 annual report
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The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health has published its 2017 annual…
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CIMMYT projects working to enhance business agility of South Asian seed companies
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The seed industry in Nepal, as in most developing countries, is still emerging and largely…
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HarvestPlus founder joins forces with African Leaders for Nutrition
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus founder Howarth Bouis has joined the African Leaders for Nutrition initiative where he w…
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International Decade for Action
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“Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-2028…
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Transforming information into a commodity
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Can agricultural advisory services provide business opportunities for agro-input dealers? In Odisha,…
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How to take forest landscape restoration to the next level
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Environmental health
Europe - Governments around the world have pledged over 150 million hectares of forested land…
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Better farming practices key to combating desertification and drought
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Combating desertification and drought is critical, but focusing on the bigger challenge of unsustain…
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2018 GFPR Stockholm Launch: Making global trade work for inclusive, sustainable food systems
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY CHRISTOPHER RUE The global trade in food will continue to play a key role…
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Delayed Pregnancy, Reduced Open Defecation key factors in Reducing Anemia Among Indian Women
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Gender equality
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Health
Washington, D.C.: Reduction of open-defecation in villages, increased age at pregnancy, and women’…
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