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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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Uncertainty over land rights perceived as top investment risk in new USAID survey
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Environmental health
Insights into the way the private sector deal with risks to their investments stemming from…
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Opportunities and Challenges for CGIAR in a Changing World
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Food security
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Nutrition
The Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) recently convened its 17th meeting at the F…
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ScienceLine.org: What pushes a major city to the brink of running out of water?
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Environmental health
By April, it became clear the city would just avoid reaching “Day Zero,” the date…
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To survive in climate change, look past targets and focus on the long game
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Under the theme “Building the Investment Case for Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration,” the 2…
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How trade wars threaten food security
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY WILL MARTIN AND DAVID LABORDE What began as heated rhetoric over trade between the United…
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Rice and Reason: Planning for System Complexity in the Indus Basin
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Food security
The summary of this scenario development workshop and a Vision for the Indus Basin will…
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A brief explainer of how REDD+ finance works
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In one of largest ongoing efforts to tackle climate change, projects happening the world under…
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Working with Cambodian rice farmers to combat a plague of rodents
30.05.18By adapting new rodent pest management strategies, Cambodian farmers are now able to defend their…
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From 'Look East' and 'Act East,' India must 'Think Big' and 'Act Big'
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANMEET AJMANI AND DEVESH ROY India's Republic Day Jan. 26 marked a significant change in the…
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Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?
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Environmental health
Every year, the Peruvian Amazon loses more than 100,000 hectares of forest due to expansion…
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Progress on the process of managing landscapes
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Environmental health
It’s 2018, and the pressure to manage the world’s resources responsibly for people, biodiversity…
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Here’s how to do bean breeding the climate-smart way
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There’s a high likelihood that in 10-30 years’ time, heat stress will become a constraint…
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SeedCast – Innovative mobile app launched by IRRI to estimate seed demand for rice varieties in Odisha, India
28.05.18IRRI together with the Odisha Department of Agriculture and the Odisha State Seed Corporation (OSSC)…
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Are deforestation-free commodities too good to be true?
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Environmental health
Thanks to pressure and advocacy from civil society, governments, shareholders and consumers in the G…
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Major step forward in chickpea and pigeonpea research – reference genome data assembled
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Nutrition
Breeding high nutritional varieties of chickpea and pigeonpea just got easier. With new technology, …
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Adaptable, productive Unica: a potato for farmers around the world
25.05.18“Our business has grown a lot thanks to Unica,” he said, adding that because so…
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Joining the dots between crops, livestock and markets in West Africa
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Environmental health
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Food security
A project that aims to strengthen research in crop-livestock systems, to substantially change lives …
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New Study: Status of Child Stunting in India
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Food security
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Nutrition
Stunting prevalence in India is high (38.4%) and varies considerably across districts (from 12.4% to…
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