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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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COVID19 – Work in shifts, researchers advise yam seed producers and farmers
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To reduce the spread of COVID-19, governments all over the world have instituted specific measures …
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WorldFish celebrates World Oceans Day
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This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
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The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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Post-Covid agri reforms: Odisha could be frontrunner
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Food security
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Representational image for Indian agriculture (related op-ed) | Photo: Prashanth Vishwanathan | Bloo…
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Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
06.06.20-
Food security
One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing…
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Celebrating World Food Safety Day 2020: Food safety, everyone’s business
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To mark the second World Food Safety Day that will be celebrated on 7 June…
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Conservation agriculture feeds people and protects the environment
04.06.20-
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On June 5, 2020, the world celebrates World Environment Day as COVID-19 continues to cause…
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Groundwater depletion in Punjab: Time for a major policy overhaul
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The time for quick fixes is over; a comprehensive policy overhaul is urgently needed to…
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Farm mechanization under COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the way the world operates, and agricultural production…
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A food environment typology for global application
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Food security
A group of food systems researchers has developed a food environment typology that includes wild…
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Building resistance in wheat: International collaboration fights Septoria tritici blotch disease
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Tunisia has been a major durum wheat producer and consumer since Roman times, a crop…
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COVID-19 is shifting consumption and disrupting dairy value chains in Ethiopia
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BY AGAJIE TESFAYE , YETIMWORK HABTE AND BART MINTEN COVID-19 has disrupted food systems in many co…
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A4NH releases 2019 annual report
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The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) has published its 2019…
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Policy Brief: Impact of COVID-19 on the Rice Value Chain (RVC) in Asia
01.06.20-
Food security
Lockdowns, shutdowns and other protection measures induced by the COVID-19-pandemic have disr…
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Reviving the farm economy
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The return of migrant workers to their villages offers an opportunity to give agribusiness a…
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A strategic guide: Working towards food security in the drylands, through COVID-19 and beyond
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ICRISAT is well positioned to significantly contribute to efforts towards restoring food security in…
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Virtual seminar: Build on knowledge, translate to action with the 2020 Global Food Policy Report
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Food security
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Gender equality
BY MARIËLLE KARSSENBERG IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) was written before the ou…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Food security
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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