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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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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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To fix landscapes, first get the right tools
05.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
By pledging to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land, countries take a…
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The credibility gap: Low trust in government stands in the way of fuel subsidy reform
04.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By all accounts, fossil fuel subsidies are disastrous public policy. They encourage us to consume…
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IFPRI Headquarters Move Complete
04.04.18Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that IFPRI-Washington staff will now be housed under…
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Sowing the seeds of rice self-sufficiency in Africa through capacity building
04.04.18-
Food security
Workshop participants discuss constraints in the production and delivery of quality rice seed in Uga…
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Gender relations and gaps in the cocoa value-chain in Peru
04.04.18Researchers have found that greater inclusion of women is needed to optimally intensify cocoa value-…
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Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees?
04.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Agroforestry can make a key contribution to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which aims to…
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The sweet secrets of Mt. Mutis
02.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Once upon a time, there was a scientist who traveled to West Timor, Indonesia to…
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Water for Food: PhilRice and IRRI jointly organized field day to create awareness on sustainable water management
02.04.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
After the field demonstration, the participants were shown other water-saving technologies. Engr. Le…
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2018 GFPR India launch: India’s time to focus on farmers
30.03.18-
Food security
Against the backdrop of rising concerns over farm distress in India, and a farmers’ protest movem…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Nutrition-sensitive approach lowers anemia prevalence in Burundi
29.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Evidence shows that food-assisted maternal and child health and nutri…
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The legacy of a life devoted to seed conservation
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
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Food security
It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Chin Hoong Fong…
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Banana Breeders Challenged to Breed for Weevils and Nematodes
29.03.18-
Biodiversity
Banana researchers from across the globe are congregating in Kampala, Uganda from 27 to 29…
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Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
28.03.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern…
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Optimizing food assistance programs: Improving child growth in Burundi
28.03.18-
Health
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Nutrition
BY TRACY BROWN AND JEF LEROY Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) progra…
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The tropical family tree: Tracking forests’ evolutionary past
28.03.18-
Big data
Scientists have traced the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests, with some surpris…
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Innovations in food systems: the key to human and planetary health
27.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY SHENGGEN FAN The world has made tremendous progress in improving food security and nutrition.…
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IRRI and Philippine Science and Technology Department partner to advance scientific and technological collaboration
27.03.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
26 March 2018, Los Baños, Philippines – The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the…
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Unleash the power of young Africans: Supporting the farmers of tomorrow
26.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KANAYO F. NWANZE The number of young people between ages 15 and 24 is growing…
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