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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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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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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“You will be afraid of doing anything on your own”: Agricultural development, intimate partner violence, and women’s agency
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Gender equality
This year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign (Nov. 25-Dec. 10) present…
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The Micronutrient Forum and IFPRI Announce New Hosting Partnership
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Nutrition
Washington D.C., December 3, 2018 - The Micronutrient Forum (the Forum) and the International Food …
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Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress
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Food security
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Nutrition
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
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Big data shows big promise for feeding the world
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Big data
Digital innovations are set to transform a global food system in crisis. These innovations, however,…
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Delivering more with less: Subnational service provision in low capacity states
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The new paper examines how subnational variation in capacity affects access to agricultural extensio…
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Nations urged to accelerate efforts to wipe out hunger and malnutrition
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Environmental health
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Nutrition
With hunger and obesity on the rise, a global forum aims to catalyze urgent action…
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Ambitious steps to control climate change may pose food security risks in the near term
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
The world faces a series of mounting challenges if it is to head off impacts…
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What I learned from playing with Lego on the job
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Food security
Agricultural social science research is such an interesting job. When you get into exploratory diagn…
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This week: A global event on Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
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Food security
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Nutrition
This week 28–30 Nov 2018 in Bangkok A senior delegation from the International Livestock Research…
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Strategic simplification to create healthy and sustainable food systems in an urbanizing world
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Food security
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Food systems are shaped by consumption and demand—we need to always keep this in mind.…
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NEW STUDY: Urbanization associated with lower rates of child stunting but higher rates of obesity among women
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C: Urbanization is changing the landscape of health and nutrition in Africa, and in…
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ColdHubs: Addressing the crucial problem of food loss in Nigeria with solar-powered refrigeration
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
For the young tomato farmer from Kano in northern Nigeria, Ahmed, the clock starts ticking…
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Animal-sourced foods are vital to combating malnutrition and stunting in the developing world
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
When poorly nourished children in developing countries fall behind in their physical growth and be…
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Cash Transfers coupled with Behavior Change Communication sustainably reduce violence against women
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is pervasive globally, with estimates showing that one in three adul…
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The SDGs on Zero Hunger and Clean Water and Sanitation can’t be achieved without each other, so where do we start?
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
The 2015-2030 period has become a crucial time for progress in global sustainable development: The …
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Key to a healthy, sustainable world: Partnership and collaboration in agriculture
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Is the world prepared to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050? What role do…
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Where is the standardized measure of women’s empowerment?
15.11.18-
Gender equality
Measurements of empowerment—particularly women’s empowerment—are having a moment in the spotli…
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Statement from Shenggen Fan on Conclusion of Second Term as IFPRI Director General
15.11.18November 15, Washington, D.C.: I have informed IFPRI staff and supporters that my second, five-year…
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