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Action on food systems transformation must be stepped up to ensure food security for the almost 100 million Vietnamese people and globally.

BY SUMAN CHAKRABARTI, SAMUEL SCOTT, HAROLD ALDERMAN, PURNIMA MENON AND DANIEL GILLIGAN By April 2020, schools in 170 countries were closed to curtail COVID-19 transmission. In India, 247 million children have been out of the classroom for over a year. Beyond the devastating consequences school closures are having on learning, health experts are particularly concerned about vulnerable Indian children missing out on

A virtual event was held to celebrate the launch of FishNutrients, a predicative model used to estimate the nutrient composition of thousands of fish species. Read more 

By Dr. Akmal Akramkhanov, ICARDA Senior Scientist – Sustainable Land Management, and Anastasiya Shyrokaya, MSc Bonn University  Land degradation, caused by secondary salinization, soil erosion and desertification, poses a major threat to Uzbekistan’s economic development and environmental sustainability. Over the past decades, many of the country’s agroecological zones have experienced widespread losses of fertile topsoil and nutrients, and vast tracts

“Young people are on the frontlines of the struggle to build a better future for all,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, in the lead up to International Youth Day. Today we examine our important agricultural academic capacity-building activities through two distinct, yet harmonious voices: that of a senior ICARDA scientist, and that of the master’s student he supervised during the

The AI-powered mobile app PlantVillage Nuru has been expanded to include potato diseases, allowing farmers to identify and manage diseases in their field.  In 1845, farmers in Ireland reported seeing a “blight of unusual character,” a “fearful malady” with no known cure. That malady spread quickly and caught farmers unaware. By the end of the next year, three quarters of the Irish potato crop was decimated.   In response, the world’s first agricultural and advisory

Throughout history, pond-based aquaculture has been an important source of food and income for many communities. Today, with farmed fish accounting for more than half of all fish eaten globally, pond-based aquaculture continues to provide substantial economic, nutrition and food security benefits in the regions it is practiced. Increasingly, however, these aquaculture systems – most popular in peri-urban settings –

Aquaculture internship programs help youth to gain experience and fill in industry gaps for win-win benefits. Read more