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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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2018 GFPR India launch: India’s time to focus on farmers
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Against the backdrop of rising concerns over farm distress in India, and a farmers’ protest movem…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Nutrition-sensitive approach lowers anemia prevalence in Burundi
29.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Evidence shows that food-assisted maternal and child health and nutri…
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The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
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Biodiversity
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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
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Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving child growth in Burundi
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Health
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) progra…
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The tropical family tree: Tracking forests’ evolutionary past
28.03.18-
Big data
Scientists have traced the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests, with some surpris…
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Innovations in food systems: the key to human and planetary health
27.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SHENGGEN FAN The world has made tremendous progress in improving food security and nutrition.…
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IRRI and Philippine Science and Technology Department partner to advance scientific and technological collaboration
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Food security
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Nutrition
26 March 2018, Los Baños, Philippines – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the…
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Unleash the power of young Africans: Supporting the farmers of tomorrow
26.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KANAYO F. NWANZE The number of young people between ages 15 and 24 is growing…
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Forest fact or fiction
26.03.18-
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Last Wednesday marked the seventh International Day of Forests, an occasion to celebrate our forests…
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ArkansasOnline.com: UN biodiversity report paints bleak picture
26.03.18-
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Environmental health
WASHINGTON — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a significant rate, according…
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Dam right: Improving opportunities for reservoir fisheries
26.03.18-
Environmental health
Sustainable Development Goal 6 commits the world to ensuring that everyone has access to safe…
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Shirley Tarawali on convergence in consumption of milk, meat, eggs at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
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Food security
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Nutrition
(Left) moderator Nathalie Randin and keynote speaker Shirley Tarawali at an expert panel session of…
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Turning down the heat in Indonesia’s oil palm industry
25.03.18-
Environmental health
In Indonesia, palm oil is a hot industry in more ways than one. In 2015…
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Launch of the IPBES regional assessments
24.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The sixth plenary session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecos…
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Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…
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2018 Global Food Policy Report tracks impacts of antiglobalism and outlines key reforms
23.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The rise of anti-globalization politics and policies around the world poses threa…
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