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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
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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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Collective action and perseverance pay off for women rice farmers in Madagascar
14.10.22-
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Modernization of agriculture requires farmers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and sustain the pr…
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International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agriculture
13.10.22-
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International Rural Women’s Day 2022: Reaching women farmers with information on climate smart agr…
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The critical role of smallholder farmers of the Eastern Gangetic Plains in the global food chain
13.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
The Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) are vulnerable to climate change and face tremendous challenges, i…
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Stepping up for South Asian women
07.10.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women play an integral role in all stages of agrifood systems, yet their unpaid labor…
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AfricaRice and CERFAM join forces to support African countries to end hunger through South-South cooperation
03.10.22-
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Nutrition, health & food security
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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 3 October 2022. The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the Regional Center…
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Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
28.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
A new special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights nine influential papers published i…
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Can we accelerate gender equality?
22.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
In an introductory essay for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2022 Goalkeepers report, Melind…
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The MountainHER project kicks off!
19.09.22-
Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Rabat, Morocco, 20 September 2022 - Under the leadership of Dr Rachid Mrabet of INRA Morocco, exp…
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Staying alive: Navigating water, gender and poverty inequalities in Kafr El Sheikh, Egypt
16.09.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Women’s increasing roles in irrigation in Egypt, as well as across the MENA region cannot…
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To ease the world food crisis, focus resources on women and girls
01.09.22-
Gender equality
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Social inclusion
Learn from past crises to protect women and girls from hardship and combat the food…
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The response to the global food crisis must address the needs of women and girls
31.08.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
The response to the global food crisis must address the needs of women and girls…
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Call for cases: Integrating gender into breeding objectives and decisions - what works, where and why?
25.08.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Do you know of a plant breeding effort that is trying to have more gender…
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USAID-AfricaRice project sets the stage for a resilient, vibrant seed industry in Senegal
23.08.22-
Food security
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Gender equality
An innovative public-private partnership-based project, led by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) w…
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Opportunities abound for investors in Africa's low-value species market, says WorldFish
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The organization is trying to create a climate-change resilient tilapia that can withstand higher oc…
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How research stations can be more gender-inclusive
29.07.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Both science and agriculture are often male-dominated. But this is starting to change as women…
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The missing link: Making women part of the response to the global food crisis
26.07.22-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Learning from past crises can help us ensure an inclusive, gender-equitable response to today’s gl…
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Improving Rural Nutrition Security with Nigeria’s Women in Agriculture Program
21.07.22-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
In Nigeria, women play key roles in food and nutrition security through their contributions to…
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Researchers use storytelling to evaluate women’s agency in agricultural production
12.07.22-
Gender equality
CIMMYT enumerators hold booklets with vignettes before their interaction with family farmers Kiran D…
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