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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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Technology picks up and transmits “call of the wild” to stop illegal deforestation
28.04.18-
Environmental health
In the heart of a remote area in northern Brazil, the Amazon rainforest hums with the…
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Golden Cassava Prize awarded to a CIAT researcher
27.04.18Dr. Hernán Ceballos, a plant breeder at CIAT’s Cassava Program, and Alfred Dixon, IITA Director…
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2018 GFPR Geneva Launch: Aligning investments, policies to build stronger food systems
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Governments and development organizations should take steps to better align their…
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Chickens for greater prosperity in rural Ethiopia
27.04.18-
Food security
‘We combine the ultramodern research facility in Ethiopia with the fascinating art installations o…
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Global experts to convene in Washington for discussions on future of sustainable finance
26.04.18-
Environmental health
More than 250 financial experts, policymakers and environmentalists will meet in Washington on May 3…
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New Index: Pro-WEAI Measures Women’s Empowerment, Agency, and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
26.04.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
Pro-WEAI measures women’s empowerment and inclusion at the project level Helps projects to identif…
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Achieving food and nutrition security through open access data
26.04.18-
Big data
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Food security
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, INDIRA YERRAMAREDDY AND SURESH BABU The data era has arrived. Stakeholders, ent…
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Maruti - the pigeonpea saviour
26.04.18-
Biodiversity
A direct release from the ICRISAT genebank helped revitalize the pigeonpea industry in Karnataka, In…
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Uniting efforts to enhance the use of neglected Mayan superfood chaya
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Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Rose Robitaille, Research Fellow, Healthy diets from sustainable food systems, discusses the potenti…
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What happened at the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
25.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region on earth, home to the world’s three largest cities.…
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Webinar: Measuring food losses: a new methodology
25.04.18-
Food security
Despite broad interest in the problem, measurement of food loss and waste is problematical, especial…
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Unlocking rice gene diversity for food security
25.04.18-
Food security
A new study published in the Nature journal opens the possibility to accelerate rice breeding…
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CGIAR Germplasm Health Units commit delivery of good quality germplasm
25.04.18-
Food security
The GHU is composed of germplasm experts from CGIAR centers including AfricaRice, Bioversity Interna…
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Transform Nutrition-West Africa launches with consultation in Dakar
24.04.18-
Nutrition
Transform Nutrition-West Africa, a new regional platform which aims to enable effective policy and p…
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UnEnvironment.org: Scientists warn of dangerous decline in Asia-Pacific’s biodiversity
24.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The report comprises four assessments covering Asia-Pacific as well as three other major regions of…
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On the need for expanding sustainability frameworks and veterinary vision in developing countries
24.04.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Divine bovine, painting by Karen Bezuidenhout. A new science paper argues for broadening traditional…
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How’s the water? Crowdsource to find out
23.04.18-
Big data
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Environmental health
Montane forests in East Africa play a crucial role as water towers, holding freshwater long…
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Social forestry impacts local livelihoods in Indonesia
23.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
In a two-part series, the Center for International Forestry Research’s (CIFOR) Forests News examin…
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