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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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To manage El Nino-related crop distress in eastern and southern Africa, invest in drought-tolerant seeds and better soil and water care
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To mitigate the impact of the current drought affecting millions of farmers living in Kenya…
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What Cameroon can teach others about managing community forests
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A quarter of a century ago, Cameroon passed a law which gave people living on…
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Healthy Foods You Haven’t Heard Of (Yet): The Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Database
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A new database compiles nutrition information on over 185 neglected and underutilized food species a…
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AfricaRice Dr Robert Carsky Award for 2019
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This is an annual award, which was instituted by AfricaRice in honor of the late…
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A Homecoming for Rice
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AfricaRice will open its new genebank later this year, in Mbe, Cote d’Ivoire. But first,…
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A roadmap to guide regreening in Mali
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Biodiversity
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Government, researchers and development agencies are creating a roadmap for restoration in Mali to e…
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Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Growing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, are…
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Transforming food systems in Southeast Asia
09.04.19-
Environmental health
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IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative…
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Kenyan value chains are crucial for regreening efforts
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Researchers show development of value chains is important for restoring degraded land in Kenya. Deve…
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Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases
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Biodiversity
KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of…
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Direct Seeded Rice Consortium convenes first annual meeting to advance partnerships for more sustainable, environment-friendly rice systems
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Environmental health
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14 March 2019, IRRI Headquarters ~ The Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), a multi-stakehol…
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French agricultural research and CGIAR reinforce their scientific collaboration to the benefit of agriculture, food and climate change
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Laying a strong foundation for a joint plan of action between CGIAR and France to…
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Seed companies in West Africa eye pearl millet hybrid with 70% higher yield potential
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A newly developed pearl millet hybrid, with 70% yield-gain potential and high disease resistance, ha…
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Breaking barriers for climate-smart crop adoption in Kenya
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Paving the way for development of a reliable seed distribution model, a nationwide program has…
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Well-meaning tenure reforms can’t quash land conflicts
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
When countries revise their land and forest tenure laws, whereby rights are granted to people…
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Catalyzing partnerships for reforestation of degraded land
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In this second edition of the “Innovative finance for sustainable landscapes” interview series, …
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• Report of the High-Level Ministerial Conference on rice: Delivering on Commitments to Transform Africa’s Rice Industry
02.04.19-
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This document presents the report of the High-Level African Ministerial Conference on Rice held in…
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Assigning value to nature’s bounty
02.04.19-
Environmental health
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Toward more inclusive water management in Kenya’s Tana River Basin.…
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