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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy launches groundbreaking open learning portal for global agronomy education
18.09.24-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Innovative platform provides agronomy-focused courses and resources to empower learners and drive ag…
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CGIAR demonstrates solidarity with flood-affected communities in Vietnam
18.09.24-
Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
In a display of compassion and support, CGIAR centers in Vietnam donated a significant sum…
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How small-scale farmers jumped commercialisation hurdles in Ethiopia
28.05.21Chickpea farmers have adopted new varieties to achieve commercialisation, say scientists The use of …
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Viet Nam uses the Land-Use Planning for Multiple Environmental Services framework for its provincial green-growth action plan
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Environmental health
Lam Dong Province in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands makes the transition to a ‘green’ or…
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Refugees demand for energy can be met!
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, with about 1,425,040 people who mostly soug…
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How young Kenyans feel about farming goes against conventional wisdom
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
Every year, 12 million young people enter the labour market across the African continent. Economists…
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Illegal forest-zone oil palm in Indonesia
22.01.21-
Environmental health
Researchers have identified oil palms growing where they shouldn’t be. Discussions are underway ab…
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Regreening Africa's consolidated seven-country baseline survey
16.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Regreening Africa recently published a significant consolidated baseline survey report, synthesizin…
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Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land-restoration strategy: under what conditions does it work?
14.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The upcoming 2021–2030 United Nations decade of restoration aims to accelerate efforts towards ach…
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Gendering migration: how straightforward is it?
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Drawing on the narratives of women and men who have domestic or international migration experience,…
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Improving governance of trees can better conserve biodiversity
09.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated clearing of forests are…
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Latin America learning how much carbon can be stored in grazing land
07.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices, which incorporate trees into graz…
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Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations to scaling
03.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Integrating trees in farming and pastoral landscapes – agroforestry is one of the most effective…
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Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America
31.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
When fall armyworm first arrived on the African continent in 2016, the potential loss of…
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Which tree, where in Nepal? Mapping for the national agroforestry policy
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers have used different geospatial datasets of land, soil, climate and topography to model, …
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What does it take to change the Earth? India’s National Agroforestry Policy and beyond
24.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 2014, India became the first country in the world to adopt a national agroforestry policy.…
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Tree roots reduce landslide risk
19.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers in Indonesia provide evidence of suitability of tree species in preventing landslides. &…
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How many trees does a healthy watershed need?
17.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesian spatial-planning law prescribes that every district needs to have 30% forest cover to sec…
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