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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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With COP26 in the rearview, where do we go from here?
23.11.21-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
IWMI and One CGIAR look forward to the work ahead post-Glasgow, as determined as…
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World Toilet Day 2021: An interview with Olufunke Cofie
19.11.21-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Leadership and governance systems must provide an enabling environment for the scaling of improved s…
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Thinking fish: A prerequisite for multifunctional landscape management
30.09.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Two seminars convened by WorldFish, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Inte…
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Success despite Covid: Hope from a Water Users Association in Central Myanmar
26.11.20-
Food security
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Health
The impact Covid-19 has had on farmers has been devastating. Harvest delays due to mobility…
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After the flush: How a project in Ghana is turning human waste into an economic resource
17.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
An IWMI-led project in Ghana aims to address issues with insufficient financing and lack of…
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Modernizing wastewater treatment in Sri Lanka
11.11.20-
Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Working across South Asia to identify applied technologies and business models to sustain water and…
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IWMI receives the 2020 GEO Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Award
04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
This is in recognition of the Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) product developed by IWMI scientist…
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Can citizen science help to fill hydrology data gaps in Ethiopia?
27.10.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
IWMI conducted a qualitative study to investigate the possibilities of embedding a citizen science a…
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How taking a systems approach to water will help to meet our future food needs
15.10.20-
Nutrition
On World Food Day, Dr. Mark Smith, Director General of the International Water Management Institute…
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Rural women are reshaping gender norms in northern Ghana
14.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
Understanding how climate, migration, gender roles and Covid-19 affect women and their communities c…
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The Telegraph: Let’s not wash our hands of water
02.10.20-
Health
The post-coronavirus recovery will offer a chance to improve water security for the world’s needie…
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Initial Research Highlights Importance of Irrigation for Ethiopian Farmers During COVID-19
02.09.20-
Food security
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Health
Agriculture sustains the Ethiopian economy, and access to irrigation here is critical for food secur…
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Can groundwater cushion Africa from future shocks, and spark development?
17.07.20-
Food security
Groundwater has thus far been a sleeping giant in most of sub-Saharan Africa. However, there…
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Cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 the recipe for a cascading disaster
10.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
In the immediate aftermath of Amphan, access to clean water for drinking and sanitation is…
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Ensia: COVID-19 is telling us that it’s time for global systems change – starting with water
08.06.20-
Health
COVID-19 has, like nothing before, exposed the fragility of the systems that underpin our globalized…
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IFPRI: Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
08.06.20-
Health
Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; for billions of people, however, w…
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Water in the COVID-19 crisis: Response, recovery, and resilience
04.06.20-
Environmental health
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Health
BY CLAUDIA SADOFF AND MARK SMITH Water is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food production; …
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Australian Aid: COVID-19 and Water Resources Management
14.05.20-
Health
Reframing our priorities as a water sector The water sector has an important role to…
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