News Overview

The seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) will take place from 8–12 December 2025, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi

COP30 in Belém leaves behind a complex political atmosphere, shaped by global divisions and even the unexpected drama of a fire in the venue.

The AI Agriculture Ecosystem Launch in Abu Dhabi showcased new AI technologies that strengthen farmers' resilience.

Knowledge exchange and business model scaling towards a sustainable transformation of rice straw from a waste product into a valuable asset were the key focus areas of the recent Learning Alliance Workshop in Vietnam.

IWMI and CGIAR’s DTA hosted a consultation workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, bringing together the AI Champions from 11 CGIAR centers to take the next steps in integrating AI responsibly and effectively across food, land and water systems.

On this UN World Soil Day, we are reminded by Dr Himanshu Pathak, Director General of ICRISAT, that healthy soils are not only the foundation of life in rural drylands, but are equally essential to the health and resilience of our cities.

Experts from Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania joined the workshop, organized by ILRI, on geospatial assessment of livestock vulnerability in Eastern Africa, aiming to design a framework to map, anticipate, and respond to escalating climate risks.

At the workshop organized by IRRI, experts discussed how to transform 100 million tons of rice straw produced annually from an environmental burden into a “gold mine” for the green economy in the Mekong-Sub region.