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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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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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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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Towards a sustainable, responsible and efficient livestock sector—Jimmy Smith at the Berlin Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
22.02.18-
Food security
ILRI Director General Jimmy Smith served on a panel at the kick-off event for Berlin’s…
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Researchers use DNA prediction models to speed up banana breeding
21.02.18An international team of scientists have for the first time demonstrated that it is possible…
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Policy seminar: Boosting investments in healthy food systems to fight hunger and malnutrition
21.02.18-
Nutrition
February 21, 2018 IFPRI Blog Tea Franich Christine Campeau Policy seminar: Boosting investments in h…
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Livestock are taking the limelight in global policymaking fora
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
From Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, detail of one of the many monumental bull figures—the bull being…
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Adolescent nutrition: Overlooked problem, lasting consequences
20.02.18-
Nutrition
Adolescents account for nearly one-third of the global population. With the incredible amount of phy…
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IRRI, the Chinese Academy for Agricultural Sciences, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation team up to develop rice varieties for a Greener Revolution
19.02.18The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) together with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural S…
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IRRI and Renewable Energy for Rural Areas’ partnership in Nepal introduces solar bubble dryer to address farmers’ problem in paddy drying
19.02.18Spring rice contributes around 20 percent of the total rice production in Nepal. However, farmers…
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IITA and Liberia explore partnership on youth program
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, Kenton Dashiell, led an IITA team to meet the…
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Financing a sustainable food future
16.02.18-
Food security
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla Financing a sustainable food future Argentina shou…
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NextGen Cassava gets more support for cassava development
16.02.18Cassava is vital to the food security of millions of Africans who eat some form…
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Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and economic transformation
16.02.18-
Food security
February 16, 2018 IFPRI Blog Katarlah Taylor Book launch: John W. Mellor on agriculture and…
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Examining the Philippines energy future and low-carbon development strategies
14.02.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The new paper presents an assessment of alternative, long-term energy supply and low-carbon strategi…
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Cash transfers increase trust in local government
14.02.18February 14, 2018 IFPRI Research Blog David Evans Katrina Kosec Cash transfers increase trust in…
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Workshop on Agriculture Development Support Project aims to improve irrigation practices in Myanmar
14.02.18The Myanmar Department of Agriculture (DOA), together with the International Rice Research Institute…
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Scaling up biofortified crops: Which ones, where and when?
13.02.18-
Nutrition
In 2017 HarvestPlus developed a new, 5-year strategic plan for 2018-2022. The goal of this strate…
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Climate change to adversely impact grain production in China by 2030
13.02.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
February 13, 2018 IFPRI Blog Man Li Climate change to adversely impact grain production in…
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Dams, Data and Decisions
13.02.18-
Big data
As dam construction surges across Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, major changes in river flows, se…
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The bean that could withstand hurricanes
13.02.18-
Biodiversity
Daniel Debouck doesn’t believe in ghosts, but he thinks he saw one once … or…
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