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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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Community benefits key to landscape restoration, CIFOR forest governance researcher says
12.08.18-
Environmental health
Almost a third of Africa’s land mass is degraded due to human activities – including…
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Forests in policy: A tale of three clusters
12.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
From providing clean water to sustaining agriculture and regulating the climate, forests have an imp…
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Ancient Amazon farming methods offer lessons for rainforest conservation, scientists say
11.08.18-
Environmental health
Ancient peoples sustainably farmed the Amazon more than four millennia ago, according to a new…
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A thriving community of women seed producers
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Tying up with one of China’s oldest agri-science academies to accelerate modern research pursuits
10.08.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To foster joint academic and research pursuits and to explore future collaborative ventures, the Zhe…
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A global strategy for the conservation and use of coconut genetic resources
10.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An updated global strategy launched by the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network/Bioversit…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru
09.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers say farmers need more help if they are to sell healthy farm products directly…
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Talking nutrition with adolescents in tribal regions of Telangana
09.08.18-
Nutrition
On World Tribal Day (August 9), we examine the importance of nutrition messaging in staving…
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Today’s the day to celebrate indigenous peoples!
08.08.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indigenous communities are crucial to the protection and monitoring of the world’s most precious e…
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Mine compensation process in Africa should protect women’s rights, WoMin group urges
08.08.18-
Gender equality
Women in Africa are paying a disproportionate price for mineral and fuel extraction, according to…
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When saying 'see, it works!' isn’t enough: Sharing results from an evaluation of video-mediated extension in Ethiopia
08.08.18-
Food security
BY DAVID J. SPIELMAN, SIMRIN MAKHIJA, GASHAW T. ABATE AND TANGUY BERNARD For many researchers at …
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A4NH and partners convene ANH Academy Week 2018 in Ghana
08.08.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Over 350 scientists from 50 countries met in Accra, Ghana on 25–29 June 2018 to…
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Committed to soil and water conservation
08.08.18-
Environmental health
Initiatives to restore degraded land on a large scale have gained huge momentum during recent…
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Comprehensive REDD+ tool ID-RECCO is updated and now hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research
08.08.18BOGOR, Indonesia (7 August 2018) – The innovative REDD+ monitoring tool, International Database on…
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New paper on relationship between autonomy and decision making contributes to understanding and measurement of women’s empowerment
07.08.18-
Gender equality
Despite widespread agreement on the importance of women’s empowerment, ambiguity still exists abou…
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What do equity and equality have to do with it? Insights for food and nutrition from development studies research
07.08.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Equity and equality are important themes in food and nutrition, but the existing literature has…
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