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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Harness ‘power of landscapes’ to fix health and environmental challenges, report says
28.01.21Governments must act on the vast benefits of conservation and support the rights of people…
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How one Brazilian state is tackling deforestation within its borders
25.01.21Deforestation in Brazil has been soaring the last few years. And its Amazonian state of…
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Structuring climate finance to benefit women and alleviate poverty
23.01.21-
Climate
Tackling climate change requires large-scale financial investments into adaptation and mitigation ac…
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COVID-19 pandemic offers opportunity to rethink status quo conservation efforts
29.09.20-
Nutrition
The coronavirus pandemic creates an opportunity to rethink generally accepted underperforming busine…
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Tree planting is critical for sustainable future but can’t fix climate change on its own
22.09.20-
Climate
Around 40 kilometers south-west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, native and exotic trees stand…
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CIFOR annual report brings impact of 2019 forest research efforts into focus
12.07.20The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has honed its capacity to transform research …
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The carbon on your plate: mangrove and aquaculture
11.07.20-
Climate
Stinky and full of mosquitos, mangrove forests may easily be dismissed and marginalized. But in…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
30.06.20Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degr…
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Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
06.06.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing…
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Will COVID-19 put the kibosh on major in-person conferences for good?
23.05.20The COVID-19 global lockdown has made a big dent in daily carbon emissions, according to…
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The challenge of charcoal
20.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part two in a series of three stories that…
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Kenya’s mountain treasures
13.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part one in a series of three stories that…
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Footprint for a healthy planet
05.05.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as COVID-19, the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus, and Ebol…
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COVID-19 and what it means for wild meat
23.04.20The spread of diseases from animals to humans—called zoonoses—is a public health issue as eviden…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers
30.03.20Conservationists have greeted China’s recent clampdown on wild animal hunting and consumption with…
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Papua mangroves could help Indonesia coast to climate targets
23.03.20Indonesia - The characteristics of mangroves in a range of ecosystems – from undisturbed natural…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
23.03.20-
Climate
Zambia - It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of…
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