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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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Why we need a holistic approach to improve our complex food system
08.06.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Our current food systems are incredibly complex, and are experiencing multiple failures across many …
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Improving the resilience of the poor in Ethiopia through community-based health insurance
05.06.18-
Health
BY KALLE HIRVONEN In countries like Ethiopia, sudden illnesses have a high risk of translating…
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Strengthen markets to aid India's farmers
04.06.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY AVINASH KISHORE The Indian government’s renaming the Ministry of Agriculture as the Ministry …
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Russia’s Economic Recovery to Improve Food Security in Eurasia through Trade and Investment
01.06.18-
Food security
May 30, 2018, Washington, D.C.: Economic recovery in Russia supported by the significant upturns in…
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How trade wars threaten food security
30.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY WILL MARTIN AND DAVID LABORDE What began as heated rhetoric over trade between the United…
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From 'Look East' and 'Act East,' India must 'Think Big' and 'Act Big'
29.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY MANMEET AJMANI AND DEVESH ROY India's Republic Day Jan. 26 marked a significant change in the…
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New Study: Status of Child Stunting in India
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Stunting prevalence in India is high (38.4%) and varies considerably across districts (from 12.4% to…
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India’s district-focused strategy to reduce childhood stunting must also address women’s wellbeing and poverty reduction, finds new study
25.05.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
71% of differences in stunting prevalence between low and high burden districts are explained by…
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2018 GFPR The Hague launch: Putting together policy building blocks for global food security
25.05.18-
Food security
BY IDA RADEMAKER AND VANESSA NIGTEN Panelists at the April 18 launch event for IFPRI’s 2018 Gl…
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How farmers can use smartphones to make crop loss assessment (The Indian Express)
24.05.18-
Food security
The Indian Express published a feature on IFPRI's new research on picture-based crop insurance (PB…
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International Biodiversity Day: Diversifying agroecosystems to suppress crop pests
22.05.18-
Environmental health
BY WEI ZHANG Insect pests are a major cause of crop yield losses around the…
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2018 GFPR Rome launch: How open trade impacts global nutrition
16.05.18-
Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “We are not dealing with [just] hunger anymore … we have a…
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Canadian perspectives on the 2018 GFPR: Building women’s empowerment and food security
15.05.18-
Food security
BY KATARLAH TAYLOR “To achieve gender equality, we need to address social and economic power…
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IFAD conference: Can development really succeed if rural inequalities are rising?
14.05.18-
Food security
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Gender equality
BY HAZEL MALAPIT “Do policies to reduce rural poverty also reduce rural inequality? Should we…
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Transfer programs, child nutrition, and intimate partner violence
11.05.18-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for…
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2018 Global Report on Food Crises shows rising food insecurity, need to build resilience
11.05.18-
Food security
BY SARA GUSTAFSON In 2017, an estimated 124 million people faced crisis-level food insecurity or…
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Could a U.S. – China trade war lead to a new wave of land grabs?
08.05.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY CARIN SMALLER AND DAVID LABORDE A trade war is looming between the United States and…
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Disentangling natural resource management impacts – one evaluation at a time
04.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
BY DAVID J. SPIELMAN, KWAW ANDAM AND SIMRIN MAKHIJA Last week was a tough one for our…
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