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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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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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A tribute to the late Dr. Ferew Lemma
04.01.22-
Nutrition
BY LAWRENCE HADDAD, TON HAVERKORT AND NAMUKOLO COVIC Over the holiday period the nutrition community…
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Dietary diversity among men and women in rural Sri Lanka
31.12.21-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
BY DEANNA OLNEY,BESS CASWELL, RENUKA SILVA AND MALIKA FERNANDO Poor quality diets are the leading…
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In the Spotlight: Joshua Wesana
31.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Joshua Wesana is a senior fellow in Fish and Food Systems Nutritional Outcomes at the…
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CGIAR Research Program for Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) ends with a splash
22.12.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The CGIAR Research Program on Fisheries Agri-Food Systems (FISH) came to a successful conclusion aft…
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Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 side event discusses the role of informal markets within future food systems
20.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
The Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 took place on 7–8 December 2021. Ahead of the…
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Harnessing aquatic foods for sustainable healthy diets
17.12.21-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
The recent UN Food Systems Summit and COP26 generated a consensus around the urgent need…
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests to shine a light on small-scale fisheries
16.12.21-
Nutrition
Small-scale fisheries are vital to the life and livelihoods of millions of people around the…
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Transforming Nigeria’s agrifood system for healthier diets and higher farm incomes
01.12.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
BY OLIVIER ECKER, TRACY BROWN AND KWAW S. ANDAM Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country,…
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Disparate health and nutrition impacts of income shocks across different household members: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
30.11.21-
Health
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Nutrition
BY KATRINA KOSEC AND LUCIA CARRILLO The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting poor and vulnerable countries …
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In the Spotlight: Faridul Haque
30.11.21-
Environmental health
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Gender equality
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Nutrition
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
WorldFish researcher Faridul Haque explains how his work can lead to gender transformative change wi…
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Shifting the narrative from feeding people to nourishing populations
26.11.21-
Nutrition
In an interview hosted by UN News’ Sachin Gaur, WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition and P…
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Diving into Nigeria’s fish future
26.11.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
For Nigeria’s rapidly growing population, the aquaculture sector offers new opportunities for …
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WorldFish key partner in revision of Bangladesh’s National Fisheries Policy (1998)
25.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A Divisional Stakeholder Consultation Workshop was co-hosted by WorldFish and Bangladesh’s Departm…
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Access to genetic analysis accelerates banana breeding in East Africa
22.11.21-
Food security
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Nutrition
Banana producers face many pests and diseases that affect their crop, such as Panama disease…
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Wrapping up the Borlaug Dialogue
09.11.21-
Nutrition
The Borlaug Dialogue has come to a close, culminating in WorldFish’s Global Lead for Nutrition…
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Improving fish supply chains for food and livelihood security in Southeast Asia
05.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Throughout deliberations at last month's United Nations’ Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), global lead…
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Why fish and aquatic foods are the answer to global hunger
28.10.21-
Nutrition
The 2021 World Food Prize Laureate shares how aquatic foods systems can provide six times more…
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World Food Prize Laureates on Implications for Feed the Future and Achieving the SDGs
28.10.21-
Nutrition
Please join World Food Prize Laureates Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted (2021) and Dr. Rattan Lal…
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