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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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Rice stakeholders highlight importance of creating value-adding activities for rice
27.06.18-
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In Asia, achieving food security remains an important issue, as the consumption of rice appears…
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Call to Action on Adolescent Nutrition demands better data
27.06.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SUNNY S. KIM, DEANNA OLNEY AND MARIE RUEL Adolescence is a critical period of biological and…
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Walmart Foundation invests nearly US$2M in ‘Farmer Market Readiness Program’ in India
27.06.18-
Food security
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Over 6000 farmers in Andhra Pradesh will move to an improved business model for better…
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Is agricultural adaptation on track to meet the future food production challenge?
27.06.18-
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Small-scale farmers are making small changes in their agricultural practices. Is this enough to incr…
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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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IFPRI Congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on Joint World Food Prize Award
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congrat…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
26.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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Is promoting vegetarianism for all the world’s people a form of colonialism? just Euro-centric?
26.06.18-
Food security
Livestock heading home in the evening after grazing in Afar, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Fiona Flin…
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Restoring degraded tropical dryland in extreme conditions: the case of Sumba Island
26.06.18-
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Restoring degraded land is a major global challenge made more urgent by a changing climate,…
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Nepal and IRRI sign work plan to reinvigorate efforts towards rice self-sufficiency
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 June 2018 — The Government of Nepal, through the Ministry of Agriculture,…
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Agroforestry systems for producing nutritious food for smallholders in Odisha, India
25.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) South Asia Regional Programme recently launched a three-year p…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
25.06.18-
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Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
25.06.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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Innovations for sustainable rice farming: Jain Irrigation Systems joins IRRI consortium advancing direct seeded rice systems
25.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Partnership with company that pioneered modern drip irrigation in India opens new possibilities for …
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Opening the doors to food security through genomics
25.06.18-
Food security
The development of Green Super Rice, a new breed of stable, climate-smart, high-yielding varieties, …
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
24.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…
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Film-making farmers and the changing landscape of rice extension in Indonesia
24.06.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It is time for farmers to take the lead in telling their stories and conceptualizing…
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How migration benefits economies and food security
22.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…
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