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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
Biodiversity
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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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Laying the ground for drone-based technologies to support development of climate-ready crops
11.11.19-
Food security
Globally, agriculture is witnessing significant technological advancement, best exemplified by the A…
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Spotlight on crop diversity as ICRISAT’s Genebank holds inaugural field day
11.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Cutting across disciplines of crop research, scientists gathered at ICRISAT to observe and evaluate …
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ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week
10.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
The International Tropical Agriculture Conference, TropAg2019, is being held next week in Brisbane, …
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Policy seminar: The Bridge Collaborative on bringing about bigger change faster
08.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world faces complex, interwoven development challenges. Issues such as climate change, malnutrit…
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"Pay attention to nematodes, they have adverse effects on African food security”, scientists warn
07.11.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Although the world has fully turned its attention to climate change and is continually looking…
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This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development
07.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency…
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IRRI secures ASEAN Member States (AMS) endorsement for ASEAN Rice Net
07.11.19-
Food security
(Photo caption: Dr. Morell met with H.E. Dato Ali Apong to compliment the Government…
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The making of Bangladesh's Blue Revolution
06.11.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Though fish has long been the largest source of protein in Bangladeshi diets, for decades…
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Guardians of the Native Potato: 5th Annual Assembly of AGUAPAN
05.11.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Indigenous farmers from the central Peruvian Andes gathered in Paucará, Huancavelica for the 5th An…
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Hybrid rice review: Updating notions about hybrid rice
05.11.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Recent research and technological advancements have significantly improved the quality and viability…
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Scientists develop an early warning system that delivers wheat rust predictions directly to farmers’ phones
04.11.19-
Big data
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Food security
Using field and mobile phone surveillance data together with forecasts for spore dispersal and envir…
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2019 CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference: Promoting a quality-driven food system in China
04.11.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Over the past seven decades, agricultural production has grown fast in China. According to a white…
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#OneHealthDay is this Sunday: Join ILRI in collaborative work for healthier people, animals and lands
03.11.19-
Food security
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Health
A Fulani boy in Niger herds his family’s animals (photo credit:ILRI/Stevie Mann) Written by Ekta…
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The road to women’s economic empowerment: Do women (and men) prefer on or off the farm?
01.11.19-
Food security
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Gender equality
Improving women’s economic empowerment continues to be the focus of a wide range of development…
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Fight against fall armyworm in Asia benefits from experience in other regions
31.10.19-
Food security
When the destructive fall armyworm arrived in Asia in the summer of 2018, scientists were…
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ADB-IRRI eye increased investments for sustainable agriculture technologies
30.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have recently …
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Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security 2019: Making progress one byte at a time
29.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
To celebrate this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Oct. 30), here is a blog…
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Investments, policies, and technologies for food security in Asia and the Pacific
28.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Hunger is still on the march in Asia and the Pacific. About 518 million people…
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