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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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Investigating pathogens in wildlife in Kenya to tackle neglected zoonoses
17.05.22-
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Wild animals harbour many pathogens that can infect livestock and people. Because of this, epidemiol…
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ILRI scientist Delia Grace wins 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for research innovation
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Nutrition, health & food security
We congratulate Delia Grace, professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute and…
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Risk-based and One Health approaches for improved food safety in Africa
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Nutrition, health & food security
The rapid evolution of global food safety systems in response to population growth, urbanization, cl…
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New research offers insights on bridging the gap between policy and reality in Kenya’s informal milk sector
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Nutrition
Effective communication and constructive dialogue on inclusive ways forward between policy-makers an…
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Smartphone app help farmers control potato and sweetpotato diseases
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Pests and diseases destroy between 20 and 40% of crops globally, and farmers in developing…
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WorldFish pilots last-mile feed business models to boost aquaculture in Zambia
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Smallholder fish farmers in Zambia face a myriad of challenges, but one of their biggest…
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A new model of pathogen transmission in developing urban landscapes
15.03.22-
Health
Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute, the University of Edinburgh, the Uni…
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In the Spotlight: Afrina Choudhury
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Afrina Choudhury is a senior gender specialist and research fellow at WorldFish as well as…
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Using participatory impact pathway methodology to evaluate public–private partnerships in the poultry sector in Ethiopia
01.03.22-
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A new case study on the poultry sector in Ethiopia reports on the first use…
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WorldFish spotlights resilient aquatic food systems at the Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum
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At last month’s Healthy Oceans Tech and Finance Forum hosted by the Asian Development Bank,…
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The remarkable life of Alexandre Yersin
01.03.22-
Health
Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943), a Swiss-French doctor and bacteriologist who made extraordinary contri…
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Building One Health partnerships and research capacity in Kenya
24.02.22-
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A central focus of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)’s One Health work in Afri…
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Could bird flu be the next global pandemic?
24.02.22-
Health
An opinion piece by Klara Saville, head of global animal health at Brooke, and Delia…
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Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century
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Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate…
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New mapping study of Rwanda pig value chain analyses governance and sanitary risks
09.02.22-
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The pig production sector in Rwanda is growing rapidly as a result of rising local…
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New scoping review sheds light on antimicrobial resistance in global food crop value chains
09.02.22-
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The role of food crops as a conduit for transmission of antimicrobial resistance from soil…
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In the Spotlight: Marleen Schutter
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Marleen Schutter is a postdoctoral researcher within the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at the…
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WorldFish wins inaugural Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge
28.01.22-
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Nutrition
WorldFish was awarded today the Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge grand prize of…
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