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Using the MARPLE kit to diagnose wheat rust in Ethiopia
12.08.19- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
MARPLE (Mobile and Real-time PLant disEase) Diagnostics is a revolutionary mobile lab developed by a…
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New drought monitoring system will reduce climate risks for South Asian farmers
12.08.19- Climate
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
To mitigate the food security and economic risks of South Asia’s frequent and intense droughts,…
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Artificial intelligence helps banana growers protect the world’s most favorite fruit
12.08.19- Biodiversity
Using artificial intelligence, scientists created an easy-to-use tool to detect banana diseases and …
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Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers’ profits and cut pollution, new study shows
09.08.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Published in Science, the article provides evidence for national policies that block stubble burning…
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Guiding farmers to safer use of pesticides in Rwanda and Burundi
08.08.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
It’s hard to overstate the importance of root, tuber, and banana (RTB crops) for smallholder…
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‘One Nation One Ration Card’ can transform lives in India
06.08.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
On June 27, India Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced plans to move towards a system of…
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Mass movement and the ‘femininization’ of agriculture
18.06.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
In the vernacular of climate change, the term ‘climate justice’ is nowadays rolling off tongues…
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Voices: stories attesting to sustainable production transformation in the Amazon
17.06.19In its final stage, the Sustainable Amazonian Landscapes project developed a platform called …
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
17.06.19- Climate
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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Special event: New IFPRI research program explores emerging problems of urban food systems
17.06.19- Nutrition
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
The explosive growth of cities all over the world has led to major shifts in…
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Can you trust the numbers?
17.06.19- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestati…
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What developing countries can learn from Europe’s experience with rural revitalization
17.06.19- Nutrition
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
IFPRI's 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) will be the focus of a June 19 European Development…
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From Jamaica to Togo to Vanuatu, agroforestry to help countries prevent climate breakdown
17.06.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Nutrition
- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In May, delegates from as far away as Papua New Guinea braved visa hurdles and…
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Scientists unravel genome and diversity of whitefly vector behind viral diseases devastating cassava in Africa
17.06.19- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
As part of efforts to control the spread of the two viral diseases attacking cassava…
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Combating drought in the Dry Corridor of Guatemala
17.06.19- Climate
Around the world, climate variability provides increasingly challenging environments that farmers mu…
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Borderline
14.06.19- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Ghana - Part VII of VII-part series: WHAT THE WORLD CAN LEARN FROM WEST AFRICA’S…
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How over 500 women in south India built sustainable livelihoods in face of drought
14.06.19- Climate
- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
POWERGRID-ICRISAT project in Karnataka empowers through integrated watershed management Farm-depende…
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Value unchained: putting money into the hands that grow our food
14.06.19- Biodiversity
- Climate
- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
- Nutrition
- Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agroforestry, which integrates trees and forest elements into agricultural landscapes, is currently …
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Development policy and practice – a case study in disruptive innovations
14.06.19- Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
By Eva Ohlsson and Boleslaw Stawicki A disease that was supposed to have been preventable…
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Millions at lower risk of vitamin A deficiency after six-year campaign to promote orange-fleshed sweetpotato
13.06.19- Nutrition
EMBARGOED TO 00.01 CET, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 More than two million households across six…
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To save biodiversity and feed the future, first cure “plant blindness”
13.06.19- Biodiversity
- Nutrition
From the urban jungle – even the leafier parts of suburbia – we often have…
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CIAT, World Bank and partners announce Digital Agriculture Country Profiles initiative
13.06.19Building on the success of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Country Profiles, CIAT, together with the W…
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Pineapples and peatlands
13.06.19- Creating JOBS and GROWTH
- Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Indonesia - Sowing 10,000 pineapple plants is not everyone’s idea of a good time. But…
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Act now to feed 10 billion, global experts tell WLE Commission at EAT Forum
13.06.19- Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
Can the world produce 10 billion healthy diets while transitioning agriculture from a source of…
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