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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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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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Reducing food loss and waste for climate outcomes: Insights from national consultations in Bangladesh, Malawi and Nepal
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Food security
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Suresh Chandra Babu, Yogendra Karki, Innocent Pangapanga, Md Sadat Anowar, and Nandita Srivastav…
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Sudan’s catastrophe: Farmers could offer quick postwar recovery, if peace is found
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Khalid Siddig, James Thurlow, Josee Randriamamonjy, Mariam Raouf, and Mosab O. M. Ahmed Augu…
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Global Food Policy Report 2024 Latin America and the Caribbean launch: Promoting sustainable healthy diets to address diverse nutrition challenges
12.08.24By Brian McNamara August 12, 2024 Malnutrition stemming from unhealthy diets is a major food system…
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Egypt increases price of subsidized bread for the first time since 1989: Implications for nutrition and food security
07.08.24By Nina Jovanovic and Joseph Glauber August 7, 2024 In June 2024, the Egyptian government raised…
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Training Ugandan coffee farmers on agronomy practices more than pays for itself
05.08.24By Vivian Hoffmann August 5, 2024 Average crop yields in much of Africa lag far below…
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After a year, India’s rice export restrictions continue to fuel high prices
29.07.24By Joseph Glauber and Abdullah Mamun July 29, 2024 In July 2023, the Indian government announced …
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Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture
15.07.24By Vartika Singh and Claudia Ringler July 15, 2024 Most of the Earth’s liquid fresh water resou…
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Workshop: Applying the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) tool to support gender-responsive policy innovation across Africa
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Gender equality
By Jordan Kyle, Catherine Ragasa, Susan Kaaria, Margaret Mangheni, Dorine Odongo, and Anne Omamo W…
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Workshop: Applying the Women’s Empowerment in Agrifood Governance (WEAGov) tool to support gender-responsive policy innovation across Africa
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Gender equality
By Jordan Kyle, Catherine Ragasa, Susan Kaaria, Margaret Mangheni, Dorine Odongo, and Anne Omamo J…
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Enhancing farm productivity and rural livelihoods through ICT interventions in Malawi
10.07.24By Catherine Ragasa, Ning Ma, and Emmanuel Hami July 10, 2024 Agriculture is central to Malawi’…
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Opportunities and challenges for coffee production in Papua New Guinea’s highlands
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Coffee is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Papua New Guinea. It…
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Sudan’s food crisis deepens as conflict intensifies
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Food security
By Khalid Siddig and Rob Vos July 1, 2024 After 14 months of escalating internal conflict, Sudan …
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Risk of famine remains high in Gaza
28.06.24By Rob Vos, Sara Gustafson, Sediqa Zaki, and Brendan Rice June 28, 2024 Despite some improvements…
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The high social and environmental costs of food in Kenya detailed in new research
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Environmental health & biodiversity
By Rachel Kibui, NATURE+ Special thanks to Dr. Rui Benfica, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI and…
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Shaping the future of agrifood systems: Insights from an Avanzar2030 workshop in Costa Rica
20.06.24By Daniela Salas, Mali Eber Rose, and Brian McNamara June 20, 2024 Many policies have been…
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Tackling gender inequality in a climate-changed world: How agrifood and social protection systems can empower women and girls to build climate resilience
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
By Clara Ceravolo, Ilaria Sisto, Lauren Whitehead, Matthew Walsham, Morane Verhoeven, and Shalini R…
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Sudan food emergency: Unpacking the scale of the disaster and the actions needed
15.06.24By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui June 14, 2024 The United Nations recently warned of the risk of famine in…
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New study emphasizes tradeoffs between arresting groundwater depletion and food security
14.06.24PRESS RELEASE JUNE 14, 2024 Washington DC, June 14, 2024: A study by authors from the…
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