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Angle Tadie transformed her farming after mentorship from a retired IRAD researcher, shifting from local to improved seeds. Yields tripled, enabling her to become a seed producer, mentor, and role model, empowering other women farmers. Here, she shares her story in her own words.

In 2025, as IFPRI marked its 50th Anniversary, it commissioned a review titled Taking Stock: Impacts of 50 Years of Policy Research at IFPRI to evaluate its standing as an international research institution and the influence and impact of its policy research and capacity-strengthening activities.

Environmental taxation—levying taxes on activities, inputs, or products that generate environmental harm—is a politically volatile issue. In 2024, farmer protests erupted across much of Europe, driven by participants who largely felt excluded from national and European Union green policy decisions, including reduced tax breaks on diesel inputs and taxes on nitrogen emissions.

On February 2, 2026, the United States and India finalized a trade deal in which the U.S. will reduce its tariffs from 50% to 18% on merchandise imports from India.

On November 27, 2025, over 100 experts gathered in Accra for the CircularEconomy4Ghana Consultation Workshop: a high-level event exploring how circular economy principles can drive sustainable growth in Ghana’s agricultural sector.

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), in partnership with the Government of Odisha, ICAR–Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR-CRIDA), and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), jointly organised the State-level Inception Workshop of the Odisha Agriculture Drought Mitigation Programme (OADMP) in Bhubaneswar on 30 January 2026.

A recent study published in Social Science & Medicine provides new evidence on how price-based interventions can influence consumption of healthy foods in low- and middle-income countries.