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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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Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of…
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InDepthNews: UN intensifies the quest for universal access to safe water
23.03.18-
Environmental health
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UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák underlines the importance of achieving universal acc…
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The power of science to halt deforestation
23.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…
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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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‘Move out, move up’ approach could ease India’s farm crisis: IFPRI chief (The Hindu)
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Hindu published an article in which IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, outlines how a …
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Seeds of Renaissance: Changing lives in Borno
22.03.18Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated exactly…
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World Water Day: Feeding millions from the ground up – the promise of groundwater-fed irrigation in Africa South of the Sahara
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Environmental health
March 22, 2018 IFPRI Blog Hua Xie Claudia Ringler World Water Day: Feeding millions from…
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Workshop on Enhancing Pulses Productivity in Eastern India
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Food security
West Bengal, India, March 3 – ICARDA India conducted a day-long training for farmers to…
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Phys.org: Agriculture must make water use go further
22.03.18In a world where water risks running short for many, the especially thirsty agricultural industry…
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JSTOR.org: It’s time to plug into the internet of water
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Environmental health
While the digitization of water measurement systems can be used in many management aspects, the…
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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At the World Water Forum 2018
21.03.18-
Environmental health
The vital importance of the concept for effective water governance is the key message of…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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Workshop with German partners to mobilize resources for joint research to improve animal and human health
21.03.18-
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Nutrition
Collaboration between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and German partners date…
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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Assam signs agreement with IRRI and development partners for Agribusiness and Rural Transformation project funded by World Bank
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Food security
16 March, Guwahati, Assam-Initiating next steps for the world-bank funded project ‘Assam Agribusin…
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Halting deforestation is ‘everyone’s fight’
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Photo by N. Sujana/CIFOR Halting and reversing deforestation are key to achieving the Sustainable De…
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