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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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The Role of Data and Disruptive Technologies for Climate Security
25.08.20-
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Written by Alexandra Krendelsberger and Nam Nguyen. Image credit: CGIAR CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security…
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CGIAR awarding 100K in Rapid Response Grants to digital innovations tackling COVID-19 impacts
26.05.20-
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In response to the unfolding food security issues brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, CGIAR’s…
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International analytics award goes to CGIAR centers for sustainable agriculture tools
14.05.20-
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While technology and data analysis have revolutionized farming in high-income countries, farmers in …
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Launching the AgriFoodTrust platform
12.05.20-
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A new testing and learning platform for digital trust and transparency technologies — such as…
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STOP COVID-19 CRISIS MORPHING INTO A FOOD CRISIS : SUPPORT TO AFRICA’s RICE SECTOR
05.05.20-
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Introduction The world is facing unprecedented challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-…
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Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
30.04.20-
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Despite many exemptions from lockdown, the agricultural sector in India has experienced major disrup…
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COVID-19: How the development community can contribute to food system recovery and resilience
27.04.20-
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In the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, open, data-driven collaboration and digitally-enabled…
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Intellectual Property Day 2020 - Nurturing Innovation by protecting its architects
26.04.20-
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ICARDA has long committed to Open Data & Open Access of research by applying approaches…
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8 Food Security Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis
24.04.20-
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From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social…
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Phone app gives opportunity to improve water productivity in Lebanon
21.04.20-
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly being used in water management to…
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Blast and rust forecast
20.04.20-
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An early warning system set to deliver wheat disease predictions directly to farmers’ phones is…
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Lab-in-a-backpack: Rapid Genomic Detection to revolutionize control of disease outbreaks in fish farming
30.03.20-
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A team of researchers from Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and the UK is harnessing…
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Press Release: IWMI project enables fast access to petabytes of analysis-ready water data in Africa
20.03.20-
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A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
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The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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Complex but adaptive: a fresh look at smallholder value chains and their development
21.02.20-
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“The Value Chain Development approach looks at market dynamics and relationships between the diffe…
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A tool for all seasons: A ‘lean’ household survey system for ‘minimal effort, maximum information’ comes of age
14.02.20-
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Key indicator groups (modules) generated by all RHoMIS applications (Fig. 1 from: The Rural Househol…
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Seed systems in Nepal are going digital
06.01.20-
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In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and…
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