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Ending Malnutrition by 2030 is Possible with an Olympian Effort
13.12.21-
Nutrition
While enough food is produced to feed everyone 1.5 times over, poor diets continue to hold…
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Why COP26 is the moment to double down on investment for agricultural research
01.11.21The links between global food systems, food security and climate change have never been more…
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COP26: Funding Innovation is Crucial for Strengthening Climate-Stressed Food Systems
25.10.21Today’s agrifood systems no longer simply feed people. They must also provide nutrition, promote l…
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Smallholder Farmers Provide the Key to Tackling the Climate Crisis
20.10.21With less than 10 years left to meet the targets set in the Paris Climate…
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Climate Change: How Innovative Plant Breeding Can Help Feed The World, Nurture The Planet
19.10.21Mere weeks from now, commitments made at a United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York will…
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Feeding Tigers: Agriculture Offers Emerging Markets a Route to Post-Covid Resilience
20.05.21-
Food security
From wet markets to empty markets, the functionality of food systems has shaped the COVID-19…
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Proposed need for additional tax for meat to prevent cancer (Tribun News)
30.11.18-
Health
Tribun News published a news piece about governments' ideas of taxing red meat in response to fin…
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Purvi Mehta on Indian agriculture and nutrition—Addressing agricultural disconnects and food disparities
29.11.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
Purvi Mehta, head of agriculture for Asia at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (photo…
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Press release: Urgent action needed to close the ‘livestock data gap’ to address poverty and food insecurity
27.11.18-
Big data
ILRI Asia Missing or poor livestock data limits development opportunities, according to a community …
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Ending hunger by 2030 is possible, if we can accelerate progress (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
26.11.18-
Food security
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Health
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Nutrition
It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the…
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Why foodborne disease is becoming a development priority—and is a solvable problem
26.11.18-
Food security
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Nutrition
The huge economic burden of foodborne disease is driven by public health not trade. This…
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How a sausage and bacon tax could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year (The Independent)
20.11.18-
Health
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Nutrition
The Independent wrote a news piece about the carcinogenic dangers of consuming red and processed m…
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Nutrition programmes, education help lowering anaemia in India (Business Standard)
20.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
Business Standard released a news article about the need to lower rates of anemia among teenage gi…
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Gel to shield Indian farmers from pesticide overuse (SciDev)
20.11.18-
Food security
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Health
SciDev published an article about the growing dangers from pesticide overuse among Indian farmers.…
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How a $50-a-year nutrition program cut domestic violence in Bangladesh (Vox)
12.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
Vox published a news editorial about the ability of cash transfer initiatives to reduce rates of i…
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Why taxing meat could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year (World Economic Forum)
12.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Health
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Nutrition
The World Economic Forum published an article about the recent sentiment that consuming red and pr…
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Opinion: Where is the standardized measure of women's empowerment? (Devex)
12.11.18-
Gender equality
Devex published an op-ed by Associate Research Fellow Greg Seymour who detailed the recent surge…
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Cash transfers prevent intimate partner violence: Study (Business Standard)
12.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
Business Standard published a news article about the preventative measures of cash transfers and b…
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Can A Woman's Rising Social Status Bring Down Rates Of Domestic Violence? (NPR)
12.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
NPR published a news feature on how improved economic status of women could reduce domestic violen…
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Africa are likely to experience growing demand for social protection (IPP Media)
05.11.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
IPP Media published an article about the growing demand of social protection programs in Africa a…
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Half of Indian teenage girls underweight, anaemic; 4 in 10 defecate in open (Business Standard)
05.11.18-
Gender equality
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Health
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Nutrition
Business Standard published an article examining a survey of teenage Indian girls regarding their…
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Where goats drink first: Women struggle as coastal India grows saltier (Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published a news article on the health issues women face as sea l…
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Africa needs a green revolution (The Economist)
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Economist published a news article about agriculture production lagging in the African region…
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ILRI publishes Caveat Emptor on Kapiti land grab attempts
30.10.18-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
ILRI purchased an advertisement in the Kenyan newspaper, The Standard, which appeared on Saturday, 2…
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