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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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Africa is facing a food crisis due to COVID-19. These seeds could help prevent it.
06.07.20-
Food security
Photo: Pearl millet harvest from a field in Mali. Photo: Agathe Diama, ICRISAT "Seed demand…
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Fostering a sustainable cassava seed system for Nigeria
03.07.20-
Food security
When the Building an economically Sustainable, Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS) project w…
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Prepare food systems for a long-haul fight against COVID-19
02.07.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Maximo Torero The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy hard, and in many…
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Prioritizing aquatic food systems key to global food, nutrition security, say panellists at Virtual Ocean Dialogues.
01.07.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
Increased commitment to aquatic food systems will boost food and nutritional security as the world…
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Stop waiting to get back to normal: We need to build back better – and this starts with transforming food systems
01.07.20-
Environmental health
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Food security
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Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Kanayo F. Nwanze, CGIAR Special Representative to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021 Lately…
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New study sheds light on early intensification of smallholder backyard poultry farming systems
01.07.20-
Food security
A new research study published in the journal Animal (24 June 2020) investigated early intensificati…
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WEBINAR: Merging ecosystem-based adaptation and insurance/finance: why we need it!
29.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In this exciting webinar, held 19 June 2020, experts discussed the opportunities and challenges for…
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No hunger games
28.06.20-
Food security
Farmers are playing specially designed games intended to give them insights into the collective mana…
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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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Policy seminar: What is needed for gender-sensitive COVID-19 responses in agriculture and food security?
25.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Khiem Nguyen COVID-19 is posing new challenges to efforts to promote women’s empowerment, threa…
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New research hub to coordinate CGIAR’s COVID-19 response
25.06.20-
Food security
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Health
A CGIAR COVID-19 Hub has been established to consolidate existing scientific evidence and help suppo…
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African small-scale mechanization project winds down after strong results
24.06.20-
Food security
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia have embraced small-scale mechanization thanks to an in…
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To counter COVID-19 in Nepal, we must support small-scale women farmers
24.06.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
COVID 19 has exposed the deeply embedded social and economic inequalities in human societies. The…
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ILRI teams up with research partners to launch CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
24.06.20-
Food security
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Health
The International Livestock Research Institute has teamed up with the International Food Policy Rese…
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World’s largest public agricultural research network launches COVID-19 Hub to support global scientific response
23.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Image of the full virion (complete, infective form of a virus outside a host cell)…
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A video is worth a million sweetpotato vines
22.06.20-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Farmer-to-farmer training videos create demand for orange fleshed sweetpotatoes (OFSP) and high-qual…
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Alimentación en tiempos de pandemia: Realismo sin magia
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
By Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla El día 2 de junio, el programa de Latinoamérica y el Caribe…
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Food systems need urgent overhaul to combat desertification
19.06.20-
Food security
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Health
Scientists, policymakers, farmers and consumers all need to collaborate to mainstream nutritious and…
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