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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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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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2023 Papua New Guinea Rural Household Survey: Insights on livelihoods and the agrifood system
22.04.24BY TRUDIE SIKAS-IHA AND EMILY SCHMIDT OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 A new IFPRI survey of…
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Act now to address Malawi’s looming food crisis
12.04.24BY JAN DUCHOSLAV, JOACHIM DE WEERDT, AND RODWELL MZONDE OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Malawi is…
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Southern Africa drought: Impacts on maize production
10.04.24-
Food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND WESTON ANDERSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Parts of Southern Africa have…
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Global fertilizer trade 2021-2023: What happened after war-related price spikes
05.04.24BY CHARLOTTE HEBEBRAND AND JOSEPH GLAUBER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in…
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The war in Ukraine continues to undermine the food security of millions
04.04.24-
Food security
BY ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The war in Ukraine continues to disrupt the…
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Global cocoa market sees steep price rise amid supply shortfall
01.04.24BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Cocoa bean prices have climbed…
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Conference: Navigating Sudan’s conflict – research insights and policy implications
22.03.24BY HALA ABUSHAMA, KHALID SIDDIG, OLIVER KIRUI, MOSAB AHMED, AND PAUL DOROSH OPEN ACCESS |…
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Scientists reflect on the design and implementation of the CGIAR One Health Initiative
22.03.24-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
In a new research article published in the journal One Health (Mar 2024), the lead…
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World Water Day 2024: Invest in women for peace and water security
21.03.24BY CLAUDIA RINGLER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 22),…
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Who’s afraid of high fertilizer prices?
21.03.24BY BRENDAN RICE AND ROB VOS OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 During 2021 and 2022, global…
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Famine in Gaza
18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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Shaping global agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s pathways to impact
14.03.24Shaping Global Agendas: The IFPRI Food Security Portal’s Pathways to Impact…
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Playing the right game: A decision tree for choosing approaches to strengthen water governance
13.03.24BY THOMAS FALK, VISHWAMBHAR DUCHE, RICHU SANIL, PRATITI PRIYADARSHINI, HAGAR ELDIDI, RUTH MEINZEN-DI…
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Agrifood value chains are complex transaction-linked networks: What does this mean for sampling methodology?
11.03.24by Kate Ambler, Jeff Bloem, Alan de Brauw, and Julia Wagner Agrifood value chains are…
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Policy seminar: Scaling up the new Women’s Empowerment Metric for National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) tool
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Gender equality
BY EMILY MYERS, FLOR PAZ, AND JENNIFER JOHNSON OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Research on gender…
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Do ultra-poor graduation programs build resilience against droughts? Evidence from rural Ethiopia
04.03.24BY KALLE HIRVONEN, DANIEL GILLIGAN, JESSICA LEIGHT, HELEENE TAMBET, AND VICTOR VILLA OPEN ACCESS |…
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The path forward on global food system transformation
01.03.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
BY CATERINA RUGGERI LADERCHI, JOHAN SWINNEN, AND TAMSIN ZANDSTRA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Every year,…
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Rising food prices are putting children in harm’s way
29.02.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY DEREK HEADEY AND MARIE RUEL OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The real price of food…
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