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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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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
14.05.25<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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Using Photovoice to assess impacts of behavior change nutrition activities in Kenya
05.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Novel ways are being explored to make nutrition interventions more effective and efficient in Kenya.…
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AdaDerana.lk: How is Sri Lanka preparing to tackle recurring floods?
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
However, each year the country scrambles in search for an effective forecast and flood management…
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A second climate smart agricultural revolution in the Andes
04.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Climate change is impacting the lives of potato farmers in the Andean region, intensifying damage…
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Strengthen markets to aid India's farmers
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AVINASH KISHORE The Indian government’s renaming the Ministry of Agriculture as the Ministry …
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How governments can monitor progress towards better nutrition
04.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stochastic Impact Evaluation is being used to model the impacts of policies and other decisions…
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New report: The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life
04.06.18-
Nutrition
This new research report synthesizes the best current evidence on the influence of livestock-derived…
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What's so special about Science Forum 2018?
04.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
In this video, Maggie Gill (ISPC Chair), Jennifer Thomson (ISPC & SF18 Steering Committee Chair)…
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Can our environment survive our food needs? We asked 11 eminent water scientists
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
As the world marks World Environment Day this week, we ponder the links between our…
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Africa RISING looks back at what the project achieved in ‘intensifying’ agriculture in its first five years
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Africa RISING is implementing activities with youthful farmers in Bababti District, northern Tanzani…
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Collecting gender-disaggregated data, and what to do with it
04.06.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
Collecting robust sex-disaggregated data on forests and climate is one thing, but analyzing it and…
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Transforming lives: Market-led aquaculture in Africa
04.06.18Market-led aquaculture is changing the lives of small-scale farmers in Nigeria and Kenya, highlighti…
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After slow progress on climate action for agriculture in Bonn, what's needed?
04.06.18Following the decision at COP23 to establish the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA), countri…
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ILRI and its partners celebrate World Milk Day at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo and Milk Week
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Health
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Nutrition
“World Milk Day 2018 celebrated at Tanzania’s first Livestock Expo”https://t.co/hLL2FksULb —…
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GYF and IITA partner to promote relevant cross cultural environmental education in Nigeria
01.06.18-
Environmental health
Atlanta, GA - Greening Youth Foundation (GYF) and the International Institute of Tropical Agricultur…
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Russia’s Economic Recovery to Improve Food Security in Eurasia through Trade and Investment
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Food security
May 30, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Economic recovery in Russia supported by the significant upturns in…
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Africa’s first biofortified pearl millet variety aims to combat anaemia
01.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
For millions of women and children in Africa anaemia is a significant public health concern—and…
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Potassium may be a key in making rice plants more tolerant to droughts
01.06.18The availability of water is becoming an urgent factor in crop productivity in both developing…
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Global meeting brings together world’s foremost potato experts
31.05.18-
Food security
More than 800 potato scientists, industry representatives, government officials and other interested…
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