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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
14.05.25Amidst 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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Climate Security in Colombia
18.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Silage from sweetpotato vines – proven benefits for livestock farmers and feed suppliers
18.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Making silage from sweetpotato vines can be a valuable source of feed for improved animal…
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Climate Security in the Sahel
18.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Written by: Nam Nguyen, Diego Osorio, Frans Schapendonk and Peter Läderach CGIAR FOCUS Climate Secu…
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Rice-fish Systems – Back to the Future
18.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Designs on ancient Chinese pottery show us that integrated production of rice and fish in…
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Crowdsourced data reveals threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic
17.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to multiple disruptions in food demand and supply, and while…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Kafayat Fakoya
17.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Genebanks - Leveraging Crop Diversity to Make Food Systems More Resilient and Nutritious
16.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Marcela Santaella’s highest priority is making sure that storage conditions are perfect at all tim…
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Landownership and the gender gap in agricultural decision-making in northern Ghana
12.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY ISABEL LAMBRECHT AND TIMOTHY KAROFF Agricultural landownership is a source of income, bargaining …
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Farmers in Mali endorse climate-resilient and high-yielding crop varieties
12.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Farmers in Mali, who volunteered to grow climate-resilient and locally adapted varieties of sorghum,…
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Measuring the true cost of food
11.11.20-
Food security
BY DAVID LABORDE, MARIE PARENT AND VALERIA PIÑEIRO Second in a series of seven posts…
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Investing in nutrition through early childhood development in Malawi: Assessing costs and benefits
10.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY AULO GELLI, AMY MARGOLIES, CHRISTOPHER KEMP, CAROL LEVIN AND NATASHA LEDLIE A world free…
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Reaching 100,000 Pakistani Farmers Remotely Through a Unique Partnership
09.11.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
HarvestPlus is joining forces with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in a new partnershi…
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Policy seminar: AATM report examines challenges to African agricultural trade
09.11.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY FRANCESCA EDRALIN As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts trade flows and relationships worldwide, Afri…
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How can I optimize my breeding scheme?
04.11.20-
Food security
New series of manuals developed by EiB is a practical guide to designing crossing, evaluation…
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Paper: Conceptualizing COVID-19’s impacts on household food security
04.11.20-
Food security
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts food security in a number of ways, from disrupting food systems…
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IWMI receives the 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award
04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This is in recognition of the Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product developed by IWMI scientist…
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Flattening the curve on foodborne illness and its costs in Africa
04.11.20-
Food security
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Health
BY STEVEN JAFFEE AND DELIA GRACE Third of a series of blog posts on the…
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Boosting African agricultural growth and transformation: The importance of producer organizations
03.11.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY FLEUR WOUTERSE AND AMY FAYE Second in a series of blog posts on the…
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