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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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Cocoa agroforests mean more than chocolate
31.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cameroon - Cocoa is the primary source of income in southern Cameroon, where it represents…
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A thriving community of women seed producers
26.07.18-
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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Book launch: Exploring the importance of teff to Ethiopia’s economy
26.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY BART MINTEN AND NAHUME YADENE Teff is the single most important crop in Ethiopia: 43…
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CGIAR Positioning and Comparative Advantage Looking Ahead
25.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this video interview, Maggie Gill, ISPC Chair and Professor of Integrated Land Use, School of…
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Partnerships to increase pig production in Uganda
25.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock is the world’s fastest-growing, highest-value agricultural subsector, accounting for abo…
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Vietnam and IRRI collaborate on policies that support innovations in rice value chain upgrading
24.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI is working together with Vietnam to accelerate the translation of innovations that support sust…
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Hidden innovations
24.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Outside the spotlight that shines on scientific breakthroughs are a number of creative and ingenious…
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Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture Value Chains
19.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The report — Mechanized: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture Value Chains — summarizes the fin…
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Bolstering NARS Partners with Systems Modeling Training
19.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The use of systems modeling tools and decision support systems can be of great advantage…
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Empowered Women and an Enriched Community: The Groundnut Story of Northern Nigeria
19.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mrs Hadja Talatu Idrissa of Bunkure, near Kano, Nigeria, is the leader of a 25-women…
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Targeting public investment to revitalize rural areas is key to address emerging global challenges
19.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SHENGGEN FAN Revitalizing rural areas is key to address the adverse impacts of climate change,…
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Bolstering NARS partners with systems modeling training
18.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The use of systems modeling tools and decision support systems can be of great advantage…
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Creating value together in Africa’s rice sector
16.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The multi-stakeholder innovation platform approach promotes rice agribusiness by emphasizing active …
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Improved technologies bolster food production efficiency and incomes in rural Zimbabwe
13.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Most rural people in Zimbabwe depend on crop–livestock farming, growing cereals and legumes, and r…
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IRRI, FAO teams up to develop sustainable rice value chain in Africa
12.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IRRI, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is equipping the next genera…
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Can direct benefits from PPP schemes trickle down beyond private business to the rest of society?
11.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How do you measure public-private partnership schemes’ impacts to the society and environment? To …
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2018 GFPR & CASDR Beijing Launch: China provides valuable lessons in food security and agricultural development
11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY LIN GAO Countries must work with and learn from each other to advance progress…
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Research spurs increases in milk production, productivity and sale in Ethiopia
11.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Livestock play a crucial role in national development in Ethiopia, accounting for 40% of agricultura…
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