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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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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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International Women’s Day 2022
08.03.22-
Gender equality
Today around the world, we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) to note the achievements and…
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Women scientists are driving force for the potato program in Georgia
07.03.22-
Gender equality
In the USAID Potato Program in Georgia, led by the International Potato Center (CIP), women…
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A gender-responsive tool for better pest and disease management
04.03.22-
Gender equality
Women play a vital role in agriculture, especially in developing countries, but because technologies…
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Eswatini releases orange fleshed sweetpotatoes variety
02.03.22Food insecurity and malnutrition are significant challenges facing the Kingdom of Eswatini, primaril…
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Dr. Oscar Ortiz named Director General ad interim of the International Potato Center
01.03.22Following the untimely passing of Dr. Barbara Wells on 16 February last, the Board of…
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CGIAR Mourns Barbara H. Wells, Leading Expert in Genetic Innovation, Agriculture, and Forestry Research
17.02.22In a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years, Dr. Wells helped improve the health…
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Targeting a neglected threat to potato production in Africa
14.02.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
With an ability to produce more food per hectare than most crops, the potato has…
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CIP’s 50th Anniversary Celebrates Andean Agrobiodiversity
10.02.22Anniversaries are occasions to commemorate the past while looking to the future, to mark the…
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Progress and promise with orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ethiopia
01.02.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Mohammed Yusuf walks out of an unfinished house with no roof and heads to his…
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Orange-fleshed sweetpotato is key to positive change in Ethiopia
24.01.22-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Umer Yusuf is an energetic farmer living in Bishan Babilie in Ethiopia. Like many farmers…
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Potatoes in rice paddies?
20.01.22-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Sustainable intensification yields multiple benefits in China With approximately 19% of the global p…
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Canopy temperature provides novel insights into potato yields and efficient water use
12.01.22A new potato or sweetpotato variety represents only the “tip of the iceberg,” concealing hundred…
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Using drones to select drought-tolerant sweetpotatoes
21.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Droughts have long posed a threat to farmers in southern Africa, and models predict they w…
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The pandemic, labour migration and the roles of small-scale farming in rural Vietnam
17.12.21-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The impacts of COVID-19 have been various and multi-fold, reaching into every sector of our…
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Updated Pest Risk Atlas will build climate resilience for all
15.12.21The post Updated Pest Risk Atlas will build climate resilience for all appeared first on…
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Ensuring long-term conservation of crop biodiversity
15.12.21With the world on track for an average temperature increase of more than 1.5 ºC and the popul…
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of late blight prevention in China
09.12.21Now in its seventh year, the AsiaBlight Network is committed to finding solutions to ward off an…
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The future of potatoes in Georgia is youthful business
22.11.21-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Giorgi Khitarishvili started potato farming with his parents when he was five years old, living…
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