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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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Sudan food emergency: Unpacking the scale of the disaster and the actions needed
14.06.24By Oliver Kiptoo Kirui June 14, 2024 The United Nations recently warned of the risk of famine in…
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In Memoriam: Hon. Saulos Chilima, Vice President of Malawi
13.06.24All of us at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are saddened by the…
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Reviving public extension for climate-resilient agriculture: Lessons and insights from India, Indonesia, and Nepal
13.06.24BY SURESH CHANDRA BABU, YOGENDRA KUMAR KARKI, ANIQ FADHILLAH AND NANDITA SRIVASTAVA OPEN ACCESS |…
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Trade policy and food price volatility: Beggar thy neighbor or beggar thyself?
07.06.24BY WILL MARTIN, ABDULLAH MAMUN, NICK MINOT AND ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Recent shocks from…
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World Food Safety Day 2024: Empowering consumers and small businesses with information
06.06.24BY VIVIAN HOFFMANN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 A common assumption among policymakers and food system…
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Responding to Malawi’s impending food crisis
31.05.24BY JAN DUCHOSLAV, MAZVITA CHIDUWA, SIMON DENHERE, JOACHIM DE WEERDT, RODWELL MZONDE AND GEORGE PH…
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The 2024 Global Food Policy Report Stresses Urgent Need for Transformative Action to Achieve Sustainable Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition
29.05.24PRESS RELEASE MAY 29, 2024 Washington DC, May 29, 2024: In the face of growing challenges…
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Transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: A global imperative
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Nutrition
BY PURNIMA MENON AND DEANNA OLNEY OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The impacts of our diets…
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Webinar: Lessons from Feed the Future country studies on the drivers of agrifood system transformation
20.05.24BY ELEANOR JONES OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 IFPRI and its research partners have studied the…
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Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects
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Gender equality
BY CARLO AZZARRI, SEDI-ANNE BOUKAKA, JESSICA HECKERT, RUTH MEINZEN-DICK, GREG SEYMOUR, AND SARA SAVA…
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Webinar: Launching SPAM2020, the latest innovation in global crop mapping
09.05.24BY ZHE GUO, ELEANOR JONES, AND LIANGZHI YOU OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 With climate change…
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Gendered perspectives on nature-positive solutions: insights from small-scale farmers in Kenya
08.05.24By Dickson Kinuthia, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Elsa Wallin, Swedish Universi…
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Soaring cocoa prices: Diverse impacts and implications for key West African producers
08.05.24BY MARTIN PAUL JR. TABE-OJONG, ONASIS THARCISSE ADETUMI GUEDEGBE, AND JOSEPH GLAUBER OPEN ACCESS |…
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To improve Africa’s soil health and plant nutrition, empower women farmers
06.05.24BY CLAUDIA RINGLER AND CARGELE MASSO OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Healthy soils play a critical…
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Research-backed policy to eliminate miniket rice in Bangladesh will improve nutrition
01.05.24BY VICTOR TALEON AND ZAKIUL HASAN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Over 30% of rice sold…
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Exploring gender roles and women’s empowerment in the coffee value chain and coffee cooperatives: Evidence from Mexico
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Gender equality
BY SARAH EISSLER AND DEBORAH RUBIN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 In southern Mexico, small-scale coffee…
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Addressing the global, life-long health impacts of zinc deficiency: A call to action
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Nutrition
BY NICOLA M. LOWE, ANDREW G. HALL, MARTIN R. BROADLEY, JEN FOLEY, ERICK BOY, AND…
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Study: Human milk banks offer a promising option to address sub-Saharan Africa’s staggeringly high neonatal mortality rates
23.04.24-
Nutrition
BY TADDESE ZERFU OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Global child survival rates have risen since 1990…
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