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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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Ukraine and global agricultural markets two years later
26.02.24-
Food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Two years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion …
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ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations
21.02.24-
Gender equality
BY JESSICA HECKERT, KALYANI RAGHUNATHAN, AGNES QUISUMBING, EMMA FAWCETT, EMILY MYERS, FLOR PAZ, AND …
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Long-lasting devastation to livelihoods from damage to agricultural lands in Gaza
20.02.24BY ROB VOS AND SOONHO KIM OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Israel’s continuing attacks against Hamas…
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'C’est la Vie!': An impact evaluation of a Senegalese edutainment series to influence gender and violence outcomes
16.02.24-
Gender equality
BY THE C’EST LA VIE! IMPACT EVALUATION STUDY TEAM OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 "It's through…
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Interview with IFPRI’s Claudia Ringler
12.02.24-
Gender equality
FEBRUARY 12, 2024 OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 According to the United Nations, “tackling some of…
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India’s export restrictions on rice continue to disrupt global markets, supplies, and prices
07.02.24BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Six months after India introduced…
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AKADEMIYA2063: A successful case of localization
31.01.24Here we explore the achievements of these programs and the transition to AKADEMIYA2063 leadership.…
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Sustainable agriculture, resilient food systems, and climate action: A post-COP28 look at policy imperatives at international and country levels
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
IFPRI participated in COP28 in late 2023 as part of a wider CGIAR delegation. Following on CGIARâ…
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Kenyan farmers in Kisumu and Vihiga are embracing nature-positive agri-food systems
26.01.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Dickson Kinuthia, Sedi Boukaka, Kristin Davis, Wei Zhang, Upeksha Hettiarachchi - International F…
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Expanding underutilized crops in Asia: The promise of millets for improving nutrition and sustainability
26.01.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
BY SURESH BABU, NANDITA SRIVASTAVA, VALERIA PIÑEIRO, AND BRIAN MCNAMARA OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Asi…
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The impact of marriage timing on women's agency: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
22.01.24-
Gender equality
BY SALAUDDIN TAUSEEF AND FARHA DEBA SUFIAN OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 Early marriage remains a…
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Not just energy reform: The global food agenda advances at COP28
20.01.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Top photo: NATURE+ lead Carlo Fadda, right, closes out the final session at the COP28…
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Optimizing seed certification can boost sustainable agriculture: The case of Nigeria
17.01.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
In the quest for agricultural productivity and food security, Nigeria has made significant strides i…
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Impacts of Red Sea shipping disruptions on global food security
17.01.24-
Food security
BY JOSEPH GLAUBER AND ABDULLAH MAMUN JANUARY 17, 2024 OPEN ACCESS | CC-BY-4.0 The recent…
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Grappling with compounding crises in domestic fertilizer markets in Africa: The case of Ethiopia
16.01.24JANUARY 16, 2024 BY KIBROM A. ABAY, THOMAS W. ASSEFA, GUUSH BERHANE, GASHAW T. ABATE,…
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Ecosystem services may provide large economic values in forests in Kenya and Vietnam
09.01.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Upeksha Hettiarachchi, Wei Zhang, and Kristin Davis, International Food Policy Research Institute…
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Can sustainable management of land commons offer a nature-positive solution? Initial insights from land use-based above-ground carbon stock modeling in the Thoria Watershed, India
08.01.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Upeksha Hettiarachchi, Zhe Guo, Wei Zhang International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) A …
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A new book provides a roadmap for food systems transformation in Kenya
08.01.24-
Food security
JANUARY 8, 2024–The past few years have seen Kenya, along with many other countries, confronted…
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