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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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Gender considerations in informal food markets in sub-Saharan Africa
16.04.18-
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Gender equality
Kristina Roesel, a postdoctoral scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute, discuss…
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Injecting diversity to bolster immunity to climate change and food insecurity
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Biodiversity
Bioversity International’s Senior Scientist Stefano Padulosi and Principal Economist Adam Drucker …
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Inspired by the past, empowered for the future: CIAT looks forward to its next 50 years
15.04.18Officially unveiled today, our annual report, “Building a Sustainable Food Future: CIAT in Review …
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Why social forestry: Keeping the coffee
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a lush valley in Lampung Province in the southern tip of Sumatra sits the…
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How international investments in agriculture shape food security
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHELLEKA DARBY, JAMES ZHAN, WILLIAM SPELLER AND HAFIZ MIRZA International investments in agric…
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Ethiopian economy grows, but diets are still poor
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Food security
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Nutrition
A new Ethiopia has emerged in recent years. A potent combination of increased agricultural productiv…
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Community land rights open investment opportunities in global south
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Gender equality
The devolution of land tenure rights to forest-dwelling communities over the past quarter century ha…
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Taking a farmer-centric approach to Integrated Pest Management
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
"You always have to put a human face to your research. You can’t just go…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2018
12.04.18The annual award, which has been instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late Dr…
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Sustainable food systems: Agriculture by another name?
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Food security
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Nutrition
This piece is excerpted from a post by Steven D. Prager, Mark Lundy, and Chris Bene…
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Policy seminar and special event: Tales of yield improvement and farewell to Mark Rosegrant
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY SHELLEKA DARBY IFPRI marked the path-breaking career of Senior Research Fellow and retiring Envir…
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ICRISAT and Corteva Agriscience, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, Collaborate for Sharing Advanced Breeding Technologies to Improve Crops that Feed Millions
12.04.18A Master Alliance Agreement (MAA) was signed between Peter Carberry, Director General (Acting), ICRI…
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Crop research needs a system of integrated labs across the globe
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Environmental health
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Food security
BY MARK ROSEGRANT Despite advances in agricultural productivity thanks to higher and more stable cro…
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Sustainable land bonds may offer a fresh path forward
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Environmental health
Tropical forest countries could soon use a new financial mechanism to access the capital they…
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The business case for seed – a public-private partnership takes root in Kenya
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in developing countries often lack access to certified disease-free planting material for ro…
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Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites …
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How to develop and manage your own community seedbank
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Ronnie Vernooy, Genetic Resources Policy Specialist, Bioversity International, reports on a new hand…
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‘Contour bunding’ preserves soils and boosts farmers’ incomes by 20% in Mali – new study
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Food security
A new study by ICRISAT scientists in Mali has found that ‘contour bunding’, technique helps…
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