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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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Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain! (Parts 3-4, Sheri Arnott, Bart Minten)
02.05.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In these two brief video interviews, our colleagues Sheri Arnott (World Vision) and Bart Minten…
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IRRI, PhilRice Los Baños team up to accelerate varietal adoption in the region
02.05.18-
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IRRI and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) Los Baños Station are working together, …
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Kenyan President Kenyatta headlines conference at ILRI Nairobi on innovations in Kenya’s agricultural sector
02.05.18-
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Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the 400 guests at the national conference of the Feed…
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Graça Machel wins this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development
02.05.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Graça Machel, winner of this year’s World Prize for Integrated Development (photo credit: World P…
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Participatory monitoring key to restoration success
30.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
150 million hectares of degraded land – an area the size of Alaska. That’s what…
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New modeling toolkit aids development planners in MENA countries
30.04.18-
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BY MAI MAHMOUD Prioritization of rural investments is crucial for ensuring inclusive growth, sustain…
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Accelerating the development of agricultural value chains in Kenya—AVCD Conference Highlights
30.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Accelerating Value Chain Development in Kenya Conference: Highlights Read more about AVCD here and h…
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2018 GFPR Geneva Launch: Aligning investments, policies to build stronger food systems
27.04.18-
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BY KATARLAH TAYLOR Governments and development organizations should take steps to better align their…
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Ethiopia sets out the futures for its growing poultry, dairy and meat subsectors
23.04.18-
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ILRI senior livestock adviser Barry Shapiro (photo credit: ILRI). A new livestock sector analysis fr…
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A Ponzi scheme with Nature?
23.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A few months back, we shared our first impressions of new research on the Zambian…
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GCP21: Africa must double cassava production by 2050 to avert food crisis
19.04.18-
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Africa needs to double cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, said…
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Youth migration and labor constraints in African agrarian households
18.04.18-
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The new paper investigates how youth migration in Ethiopia and Malawi affects household labor, hired…
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Is Ghana serious about decentralization?
17.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY DANIELLE RESNICK On March 15, Ghana celebrated the creation of 38 new metropolitan, municipal,…
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Why social forestry: Securing the sap
17.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a forest in southwestern Sumatra, Dedy Aprianto starts clearing the undergrowth below a damar…
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Community land rights open investment opportunities in global south
16.04.18-
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The devolution of land tenure rights to forest-dwelling communities over the past quarter century ha…
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Why social forestry: Keeping the coffee
15.04.18-
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In a lush valley in Lampung Province in the southern tip of Sumatra sits the…
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How international investments in agriculture shape food security
13.04.18-
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BY SHELLEKA DARBY, JAMES ZHAN, WILLIAM SPELLER AND HAFIZ MIRZA International investments in agric…
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Taking a farmer-centric approach to Integrated Pest Management
12.04.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
"You always have to put a human face to your research. You can’t just go…
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