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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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The business case for seed – a public-private partnership takes root in Kenya
11.04.18-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmers in developing countries often lack access to certified disease-free planting material for ro…
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Bhutan and Nepal learn more about agroforestry in Vietnam
11.04.18-
Environmental health
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Government officers from the two mountainous countries visited highly successful agroforestry sites …
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
10.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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Press Release: Is waste the next big business opportunity?
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Humans generate heaps of waste every day. Waste rich in energy, nutrients, or water. Most…
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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
10.04.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration o…
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Scaling sustainable rice farming practices to achieve food security in Asia
06.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
JAKARTA, Indonesia— Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food a…
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Bearish headlines overstate the extent of available global wheat stocks, analysts say
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The declining area sown to wheat worldwide, together with stockpiling by China, is masking significa…
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Rural vitalization: What lessons can China learn from international experiences?
05.04.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY XINYUAN SHANG Despite China’s impressive progress in reducing poverty, hunger, and nutrition ov…
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The credibility gap: Low trust in government stands in the way of fuel subsidy reform
04.04.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By all accounts, fossil fuel subsidies are disastrous public policy. They encourage us to consume…
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The sweet secrets of Mt. Mutis
02.04.18-
Food security
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Once upon a time, there was a scientist who traveled to West Timor, Indonesia to…
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Unleash the power of young Africans: Supporting the farmers of tomorrow
26.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
BY KANAYO F. NWANZE The number of young people between ages 15 and 24 is growing…
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Webinar: Women in agriculture: Four myths
23.03.18-
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality and women’s rights and at least 11 of…
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2018 Global Food Policy Report tracks impacts of antiglobalism and outlines key reforms
23.03.18-
Food security
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BY KATARLAH TAYLOR The rise of anti-globalization politics and policies around the world poses threa…
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Book launch: Ghana’s cocoa industry contends with growth, poverty
23.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ghana’s cocoa industry has achieved consistent growth, but low global market prices, a lack of…
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‘Move out, move up’ approach could ease India’s farm crisis: IFPRI chief (The Hindu)
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Hindu published an article in which IFPRI’s Director General, Shenggen Fan, outlines how a …
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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Public-private partnerships and the sustainability of sweetpotato Early Generation Seed production
21.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The third instalment in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International …
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EnviroNewsNigeria.com: Why Ghanaian rural communities seldom take water for granted
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Research in Ghana and other countries suggests that “natural” infrastructure, when properly mana…
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