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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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
16.05.25-
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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Alternative meat can sustain food systems
26.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Pork prices in China have increased significantly of late thanks to an African swine fever…
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New world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe
25.11.19-
Food security
A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score…
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How a disease without borders was contained
25.11.19-
Food security
t’s been eight years since maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported on the African…
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Gambling and scrambling: betting on trees for biodiversity
22.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The farmer set the stage: as relatives and neighbours crowded around, he borrowed research scientist…
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University of Illinois bestows its 2019 International Alumni Award on ILRI chief Jimmy Smith
22.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has bestowed its Madhuri and Jagdish N Sheth Internat…
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IITA scientist highlights healthy diets at World Food Day seminar
22.11.19-
Food security
World Food Day (WFD) is celebrated annually on 16 October and dedicated to tackle hunger…
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Policy seminar: Advancing gender equality through agriculture and natural resource management
21.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
What does research reveal about how agriculture and natural resource management can advance gender e…
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More vaccination, not antibiotics, needed for Kenyan livestock—Straight talk by Sidai Chair Christie Peacock
21.11.19-
Food security
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Health
The following interview of Christie Peacock was conducted at the February 2019 launch of the…
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Can we ignore risk when we study the effects of climate change on agriculture? Research in Zambia tells us that we should not
20.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries and those im…
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Agroforestry: Development underdog headed for center stage in global sustainability efforts
20.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
“Essential.” “Obvious.” “The model of the future.” Last month, when more than 1,200 scie…
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Some lessons from a life in food policy
19.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
When I was 15 years old, I learned something startling about myself. For the first…
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ILRI and China’s Nanjing Agricultural University commit to deepen collaboration for livestock research and capacity development
19.11.19-
Food security
Chancellor Chen Ligen of Nanjing University with ILRI director general Jimmy Smith (photo credit: IL…
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The future of livestock in the developing world: myths, complexities and trade-offs
18.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The future of livestock in the developing world was one of the principal themes at…
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Million Farmers' School program can be a key element in doubling Indian farmer's incomes
15.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his target of doubling farmers’ incomes…
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Trees for Food Security Project bearing fruit in Ethiopia
15.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
On 16-17 October 2019, ICRAF’s Interim Regional Coordinator for the Eastern and Southern Africa Re…
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How do you provide healthy, sustainable food for world of the future?
14.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
New partnership with global agriculture research giant to focus on tackling challenge of health, env…
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Policy transformation for achieving the SDGs: Can translational research help?
12.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will take major transformations of the …
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Consolidated efforts to modernize crop improvement in Ghana
11.11.19-
Food security
A Regional Coordinated Trial (RCT) is helping Cowpea Improvement Program in Ghana, thanks to Acceler…
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