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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Big data
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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Can cheap loans nudge milk and meat production back within the limits of the Amazon – and the Earth?
26.07.19-
Environmental health
This year, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 29, the earliest date yet, which tells…
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On farm: exploring the genetic diversity of RTB hotspots
24.07.19-
Biodiversity
This June, scientists from all over the world convened in the south of France for…
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Climate change and rising population put pressure on essential crops in low-income regions
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Crops such as bananas, potatoes, and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s…
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Multi-location evaluation of six pigeonpea pre-breeding lines through India’s national program
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Developed at ICRISAT, these lines have been selected by the All India Coordinated Research Project…
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The birth of an impatient and optimistic breed of community seed producers in Mali
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Jean Goita has come a long way since his days as a grain producer in…
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Helping groundnut retain its place in Nigeria through the Tropical Legumes Project
19.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Alhaji Sani Usman remembers what being a groundnut farmer in Nigeria’s Kano state entailed a…
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What’s next for Sustainable Land Management in Ethiopia and globally?
17.07.19-
Environmental health
With Ethiopia and the world working towards more Sustainable Land Management (SLM), global experts m…
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AfricaRice teams up with national partners to sustainably intensify rice-based systems in Africa
15.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
15 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), in close collaboratio…
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Drylands Development Programme: changed lives in the Sahel
15.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Many farming families in dryland Africa have been struggling to feed themselves and lead a…
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AfricaRice hybrid rice varieties spark seed companies’ interest in Africa
09.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
9 July 2019, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. A set of four high-yielding hybrid rice varieties with…
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Regreening activities kick-off in Somalia
09.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Thousands of farmers are set to benefit from land restoration in the drought- and strife-stricken…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
08.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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The Seed of the Technology: ISTA conference generates interest in concerns of the drylands
05.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Discussions at the recently concluded congress of the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) …
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Pause, reflect, learn, adapt
04.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Land restoration targets and commitments have been set at global, regional, national and local level…
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Ruth Meinzen-Dick receives Elinor Ostrom Award
03.07.19-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
The 2019 Elinor Ostrom Award on Collective Governance of the Commons acknowledges Ruth Meinzen-Dickâ…
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Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
In 2003, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) designed a set of long-term trials…
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Zimbabwe’s First Lady emphasizes crop research during visit to ICRISAT
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
Looking to pull rural communities out of poverty through millets and sorghum, Zimbabwe’s First Lad…
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The role of biodiversity in agroforestry and other types of smallholder farming
28.06.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The global supply and consumption of food has increased over the last 50 years. However,…
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