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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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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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The Emperor's new NAFTA
26.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
On Sep. 30, the United States and Canada—following a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and…
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Report: Rising Demand for Social Protection Across Africa Requires Careful Fiscal Balancing, Research
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Addis Ababa, October 24, 2018: After a prolonged period of economic stagnation and decline, African…
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The role of cash transfers in building household resilience
24.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Almost three quarters of economically active rural populations in Africa south of the Sahara are…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
23.10.18-
Environmental health
Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Policy seminar: Past, present, and future of the commons
22.10.18-
Environmental health
There is a long history of common property, which we can define as resources held…
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The future of social protection in Africa
19.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Within more empowered segments of the poor population in African societies, demand for social protec…
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Policy seminar: Extending cold chains with solar power in Nigeria
17.10.18-
Food security
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Health
In Nigeria, 45 percent of domestically produced food is lost due to spoilage, mostly because…
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Overcoming the roadblocks to ending poverty
17.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Twenty-five years after the United Nations first declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the…
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Press Release: CGIAR Celebrates World Food Prize’s Focus on Reducing Child Stunting through Nutrition
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Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
16 October 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Efforts must continue to be ramped up to tackle…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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Book launch: Meet the people bringing change to the global food system
16.10.18-
Food security
The global food system is the largest single sector of the world economy, and it…
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World Food Day: Innovations are imperative to ending hunger and malnutrition
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Nutrition
Food security and nutrition are directly or indirectly related to all the Sustainable Development Go…
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IFPRI at World Food Prize
16.10.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
IFPRI will participate in the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium, which takes place Oct…
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How gender shapes responses to climate change: New tools for measuring rural women’s empowerment
15.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY SOPHIE THEIS AND ELENA MARTINEZ This year’s International Day of Rural Women (Oct. 15) focu…
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New Study: Domestic Migration Raises Incomes, Lowers Happiness
14.10.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington DC: Domestic migrants experience a substantial decline in mental and physical health, des…
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Competitive outsourcing to private contractors can improve public service delivery
12.10.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY JORDAN KYLE Delivering public services effectively is essential for development. Yet governments …
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Great expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
11.10.18-
Food security
BY GASHAW TADESSE ABATE, TANGUY BERNARD, ALAN DE BRAUW, NICHOLAS MINOT AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT Sma…
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Charting the future of India’s sugar industry
10.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DEEPAYAN DEBNATH AND SURESH BABU India’s domestic sugar market is in the doldrums, as the…
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