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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
16.05.25-
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
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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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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A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition
15.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Derek Headey, a senior research fellow at the CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute…
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ReSAKSS Data Challenge winners illuminate Africa's pressing problems
13.11.18-
Food security
The ReSAKSS Data Challenge invites competitors to use data and other resources on the ReSAKSS we…
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High pesticide use among smallholders in Africa south of the Sahara poses risks for health, environment
13.11.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Africa south of the Sahara is urbanizing rapidly and its real GDP is growing robustly,…
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New Study: Improvement in Education and Wealth - Key to Anemia Reduction Among Expectant Mothers and Children in India
12.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
Washington D.C.: Improved public health and nutrition programs for children under five years of age,…
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Forman Lecture: Barry Popkin on the growing global problem of junk food and sugary drinks
12.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
Efforts to improve global nutrition face serious headwinds from the growing marketing and consumptio…
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U.S. immigration policies may harm economies, worsen poverty in Central American countries
09.11.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are among the poorest countries in Latin America and the…
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Overcoming the “paradox” of irrigation efficiency
08.11.18-
Environmental health
Agricultural is a major player in the competition for the world’s finite water supplies: 70…
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How two agricultural development projects boosted women’s empowerment
07.11.18-
Gender equality
When we talk about women’s empowerment, it is difficult to grasp what we actually mean.…
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New review finds fundamental gaps and new opportunities for world’s agricultural monitoring systems
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world’s agricultural monitoring systems provide up-to-date information on food production to d…
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NEW STUDY: Cash Transfers coupled with Behavior Change Communication sustainably reduce violence against women
02.11.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
Washington, D.C.: Direct cash transfers coupled with behavior change communication can reduce vio…
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Ag-Incentives Consortium improves global data on agricultural policies
02.11.18-
Big data
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Food security
A group of leading international organizations joined with IFPRI and PIM in 2013 to form the…
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Evaluation finds successes for Egypt’s first conditional cash transfer program
02.11.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 2015, the Egyptian government implemented a series of major economic reforms, including ambitious…
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Policy seminar: Exploring agriculture’s key role in reducing poverty
01.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Agricultural development is among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and is central to…
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Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
31.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts …
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World Cities Day: Growing urban poor populations face unique nutrition challenges
30.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This…
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NEW STUDY: Dispelling Cash Transfer Myths in Africa
30.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Unconditional cash transfers paid to vulnerable populations as regular, predictabl…
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Design features of successful social protection programs
29.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rooted in the notion that most poor Africans reside in rural areas and earn their…
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Social protection for the extreme poor: What works?
26.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Although the share of population living on less than $1.90 per day worldwide dropped from…
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