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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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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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NEW BOOK: Higher Investments in Research, Adoption of New Technologies to Improve Productivity and Export Potential of Teff
19.07.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Addis Ababa: Ethiopia could increase production of its gluten-free and nutrient-rich cash crop…
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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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Policy seminar: Building resilience by fostering gender equity at the household level
17.07.18-
Gender equality
BY GRACE COLLORD While development programs today increasingly focus on promoting resilience, such e…
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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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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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Why farmers in India adopt certain technologies but ignore others
06.07.18-
Food security
BY AVINASH KISHORE Exactly 125 years ago, British agricultural scientist John Augustus Voelcker warn…
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Targeting open defecation, other factors accelerates anemia reduction among pregnant women in India
03.07.18-
Health
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Nutrition
BY SAMUEL SCOTT AND SUMAN CHAKRABARTI One in two pregnant women in India are anemic. This…
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Lessons in scaling up agriculture and building sustainability from Brazil and beyond
02.07.18-
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Food security
BY GRACE COLLORD The agricultural changes in Brazil, Asia, and the United States in recent…
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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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IFPRI Congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on Joint World Food Prize Award
26.06.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congrat…
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How migration benefits economies and food security
22.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KATE AMBLER, ALAN DE BRAUW AND ELENA HILDEBRANDT The current political climate and global refug…
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World Refugee Day: Rohingya in Bangladesh camp display entrepreneurial spark
19.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
This year’s World Refugee Day (June 20) marks a grim reality: The global refugee crisis continue…
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2018 GFPR Stockholm Launch: Making global trade work for inclusive, sustainable food systems
15.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY CHRISTOPHER RUE The global trade in food will continue to play a key role…
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Delayed Pregnancy, Reduced Open Defecation key factors in Reducing Anemia Among Indian Women
14.06.18-
Gender equality
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Health
Washington, D.C.: Reduction of open-defecation in villages, increased age at pregnancy, and women’…
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Gender takes center stage at European Development Days
14.06.18-
Gender equality
BY SARA GUSTAFSON AND HAZEL MALAPIT If we want to eradicate poverty, we need gender equality.…
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Nepal’s federal transition: What are the implications for agricultural governance?
13.06.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DANIELLE RESNICK In the wake of violent conflict motivated by grievances over geographically-base…
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If Mary has a little lamb, who should know about it?
12.06.18-
Big data
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, enforcing new guidelines…
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