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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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Small-scale fisheries as integral and integrated in the Sustainable Development Goals
19.06.20-
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“The Sustainable Development Goals provide the most comprehensive vision for development that the …
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2020 China and Global Agricultural Policy Forum: Building up food systems with inclusiveness and competitiveness
18.06.20-
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By Donghe Li The COVID-19 pandemic has created huge uncertainties for public health and economies…
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Collaborative research processes bring sustainable intensification results in Ethiopia, finds CGIAR-WLE evaluation
17.06.20-
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High quality evidence is important if we are to scale sustainable agriculture practices effectively.…
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COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
17.06.20-
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By Corinna Hawkes The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food…
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It's time to take a business model approach to restore Ethiopia's lands
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The impacts of land degradation are already severe and far reaching. Degraded lands threaten soils,…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
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Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
17.06.20-
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Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Reversing desertification to enhance food security.
16.06.20-
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This year’s Desertification and Drought Day theme is Food. Feed. Fiber. focusing on links betwee…
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Policy Brief: Safeguarding Food Systems in Southeast Asia Amid COVID-19
16.06.20-
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Since it was declared a pandemic by WHO on 11 March, COVID-19 has affected nearly…
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Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China
15.06.20-
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The group shuffled into the exhibition room, eyes flitting across parasitic fungi growing out of…
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Field Notes: Bangladesh in times of COVID-19. Impacts on aquaculture and fisheries
15.06.20-
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In this series of blogs, experts from WorldFish’s focal countries share their personal insights on…
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MYSAP Inland supports small-scale fish farmers and fish processors during COVID-19
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In the Central Dry Zone and upper regions of Myanmar, since April 2017, the Inland…
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Implementing nutrition-sensitive pond polyculture in Zambia: WorldFish teams up with Peace Corps volunteers
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We sat down with Taryn Cadena and Katharine (Katie) Thomas, two young women who were…
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Interview: IFPRI's Johan Swinnen on the COVID-19 pandemic, food security, and building future resilience
12.06.20-
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The following is a transcript of a World Food Program-USA (WFP-USA) Hacking Hunger podcast inter…
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Study suggests that climate smart agriculture can boost yields, reduce hunger and emissions globally
11.06.20-
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BY ALEX DE PINTO AND NICOLA CENACCHI Climate change is a threat to agriculture production around…
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COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
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Photo: COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multif…
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Recently published research captures the potential of sustainable seafood commoditization under a new conceptual framework.
09.06.20-
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9 June 2020 - PENANG, MALAYSIA - new research published in Nature Sustainability, introduces the co…
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The powerful alliance between integrated science and traditional food systems
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The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collec…
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