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The latest edition of 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI' is out!

#research #publications #academicpublishing 🧪
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Peer-reviewed publications from IFPRI researchers
This week’s collection features new research on the role of behavior change communication and nutrition supplements in preventing relapse from child wasting, sweet potato vine auctions in Rwanda, buye...
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August 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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📣 An #IFPRIpolicyseminar held on June 11, 2025 discussed the issue’s findings.

📺 View seminar recording: bit.ly/SoilHealth-

🔗 Read the press release: on.cgiar.org/3FALywr

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Fertilizer, soil health, and economic shocks: Policy lessons learned from recent events
Join us for a discussion of key findings from a recent special issue of Food Policy exploring the complex interactions between fertilizer use, soil health
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June 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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📚In this 'Weekly Reads from IFPRI', we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy 📰 which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use 🌱, soil health management 🌍, and economic shocks 📉 in various agricultural systems: on.cgiar.org/45Pnz7b
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Special Issue: Fertilizer and soil health policies in the context of global supply disruptions and economic crises
In this Weekly Reads from IFPRI, we are excited to present a new special issue of Food Policy which explores the complex interactions between fertilizer use, soil health management, and economic shock...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Read the New Markets Lab’s new article: “A Comparative Study of the Legal and Regulatory Dimension of Seed Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Vol. 228 of Agricultural Systems.

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A comparative study of the legal and regulatory dimension of seed sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa using regulatory systems maps: The case of Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda
Harmonization of Africa's rules and regulations for seed sector development began several decades ago through efforts of its regional economic communi…
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May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🚀 The 2025 Global Food Policy Report has just launched!

As IFPRI marks its 50th anniversary this year, our #GFPR2025 reviews the evolution of policy research:

📰#PressRelease: on.cgiar.org/3Fu2Efa
💻 on.cgiar.org/4mBFfsO
📘 hdl.handle.net/10568/174108

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May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza.

No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel.

That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
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March 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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ICYMI: 🌱🧊 Three CGIAR genebanks were among the 21 institutions that recently delivered seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, including samples from #AfricaRice, #IITA, and @cifor-icraf.bsky.social

➡️ Learn more about CGIAR genebanks: genebanks.cgiar.org
March 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Horticulturists, Biologists, Engineers: Federal ‘Bloat’ or Valued Experts?
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with experts. Critics say it will backfire.
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March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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IFPRI experts @agnesq.bsky.social, @jkyle.bsky.social, @kkosec.bsky.social, and Catherine Ragasa will be speaking at the UN Women 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in New York:

📅 March 13, 2025

📍 Session: "From Farm to Table: Women at the Agriculture-Nutrition Nexus"
March 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM