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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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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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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Environmental health
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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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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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)
23.03.18-
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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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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
21.03.18-
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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PIM pre-conference workshop on rural transformation at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Selected papers
14.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
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PIM will convene a pre-conference workshop "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challeng…
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RTB and CIP scholarship for Peruvian students to attend World Potato Congress
14.03.18-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and the International Potato Center …
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
13.03.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural fields…
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International Women’s Day
08.03.18-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Florianne Clement, a social scientist at IWMI, explains how development projects can detect and infl…
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Ugandan Emma Naluyima describes her thriving pig+crop farm at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
07.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Emma Naluyima, a Ugandan veterinarian and one-acre pig and crop farmer, making a presentation at…
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GASL’s Fritz Schneider on livestock and the SDGs at Berlin’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
06.03.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Fritz Schneider, chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL), making a presentation …
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