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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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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
Environmental health
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Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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CIFOR and ICRAF join 11,000 scientists to declare ‘climate emergency’
08.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
More than 11,000 scientists worldwide signed a paper published by the journal BioScience on Tuesda…
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Participants call experience sharing and on-farm training an “eye-opener”
07.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Tesfaye Degaga, 54, is a farmer who lives near Meki, a town located in the…
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Guardians of the Native Potato: 5th Annual Assembly of AGUAPAN
05.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Indigenous farmers from the central Peruvian Andes gathered in Paucará, Huancavelica for the 5th An…
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Hybrid rice review: Updating notions about hybrid rice
05.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Recent research and technological advancements have significantly improved the quality and viability…
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Unity in the face of the global climate crisis: How sharing expert knowledge translates to on-the-ground solutions
01.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the face of a global ecosystem collapse, the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods,…
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Chilling out for conservation
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
CGIAR genebanks are using cryopreservation for the long-term conservation of crops which can’t be …
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Positive impacts from 6 CGIAR Centers coming together to implement a range of climate-smart on-farm technologies
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A package of climate-smart technologies implemented by a consortium of CGIAR centers has resulted in…
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Investing in education, research and innovation for climate-smart crops in India
25.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
To strengthen the competencies of Indian scientists in climate change-related topics and to foster a…
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FAO SOFA report 2019: New insights into food loss and waste
22.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage befo…
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MEDIA RELEASE | Reforestation may not be sufficient for fighting climate change
22.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
MEDIA RELEASE: Immediate Reforestation may not be sufficient for fighting climate change Could the E…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
18.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
15.10.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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Why the world needs to put forests on the global agenda
15.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Climate change has reached a tipping point, becoming a climate crisis that is having a…
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How air pollution is holding down wheat yields in India
11.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Since the start of the Green Revolution in the mid-1960s, India has tripled its wheat…
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Achieving policy impact with political economy research: frameworks, applications, and lessons learned
07.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Danielle Resnick shares her reflections about the recent "Political economy for improved policy anal…
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Nyando Climate-Smart Village launches community seedbank
07.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Farmers from across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania traveled from their agricultural fields to Nyando in…
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Make food a priority in land reforms
04.10.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
While land titles and other reforms in forest-dwelling communities in Indonesia, Uganda and Peru hav…
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