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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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Bhoochetana: An exceptional story of innovation scale-up bringing prosperity to over 4 million farmers
10.07.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In May 2009, farmers in the state of Karnataka were facing declining crop yields and…
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Livestock’s potential in Tanzania is ‘huge’—keynote by ILRI’s Iain Wright at the National Livestock Expo
10.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI deputy director general Iain Wright gave a keynote speech at Tanzania’s first National Livest…
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Reassessing the aid-policy-growth relationship: A new approach
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XIN GENG AND MANUEL A. HERNANDEZ Can foreign aid be effective only if countries have…
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Decentralized dairy cooperatives support livelihoods of thousands of women in rural India
09.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Dairy farming is one of the most important sources of income and nutrition for rural…
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Nepal, IRRI strengthens collaboration to achieve self-sufficiency and reduce budget-draining rice importation at 15th National Rice Day
06.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rice importation eats up a substantial chunk of Nepal’s national budget each year, adversely affec…
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RICE CRP to boost communication of its vision and impact across regions
05.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
To map out the general course of its operations towards achieving food security and eliminating…
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Vaccinating farm animals helps drive up disposable incomes of smallholders in Kenya and Tanzania
04.07.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Wide-scale vaccination of cattle against East Coast fever would remove one of the biggest obstacles…
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Gaharu: A migration story
03.07.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - When the “gaharu rush” began, the migrants came in their hundreds. Suddenly, in…
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Reading between the gender lines among coffee farming households in Uganda
02.07.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
How can gender be approached in Uganda's coffee value chain? Coffee in Uganda is traditionally…
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ICRISAT declared as Centre of Excellence for tribal development
29.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ministry of Tribal Affairs Govt. of India declared ICRISAT as Centre of Excellence to support…
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ILRI Corporate report 2016–2017 now available: Investing in sustainable development
28.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rwandan women selling eggs to people visiting the Kimironko market in the country capital city,…
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Three questions on ecotourism with Robyn Nixon
27.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As environmental responsibility increasingly pervades lifestyle habits – from fashion to farmers m…
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Call to Action on Adolescent Nutrition demands better data
27.06.18-
Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY SUNNY S. KIM, DEANNA OLNEY AND MARIE RUEL Adolescence is a critical period of biological and…
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China’s road to food security in a time of rising trade protectionism
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, DC – The rise of trade protectionism and antiglobalism around the world pose a…
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Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
26.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sherpa child with lamb (photo via Pixabay/PeterColgan), London chef Jamie Oliver with rooster (via D…
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India’s northeast Bihar State gears up to approve and implement a ‘livestock master plan’
25.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Village household scenes from northeastern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Bihar is gear…
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Introducing English and Swahili instructional videos on the patterns, signs, symptoms and control of Rift Valley fever
25.06.18-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As reported in the Daily Nation yesterday (24 Jun 2018), the toll of human deaths…
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
24.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…
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