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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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Kenya challenged to meet regreening target
15.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The East African nation’s farmers are slow to adopt reforestation and regreening practices owing t…
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Land Degradation Surveillance Framework deployed in Senegal
13.03.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Framework is helping farmers and governments monitor the progress of regreening efforts and the…
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International Women’s Day 2019: Think equal, build smart, innovate for change
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Environmental health
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Gender equality
On March 8 the world celebrates International Women’s Day. In the Philippines, Cathy Watson interv…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
05.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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Growing Mounds of Waste Offer African Women Unexpected Business Opportunities in the Bioenergy Sector
05.03.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
New technologies and smart business models could turn waste into a veritable gold mine of…
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Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’
25.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
With growing stress on natural resources, emergency workers have begun to examine their intervention…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition
The Food Tree and Crop Portfolio helps with the selection of food-tree species along with…
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Trees on farms in Honduras: a chance for biodiversity
11.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Among the cattle ranches, mountainous natural forests and smallholdings of Catacamas, Hondur…
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Land restoration is a strategic investment in Ethiopia
05.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Productive land leads to many benefits but achieving productivity needs a change of thinking. The…
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New paradigm unfolds to rapidly regreen Africa
04.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Regreening Africa project is charting new paths into complex, unmapped territory in its effort…
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2.5 million hectares pledged to be restored in the Caucasus and Central Asia
31.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have pledged to put the mil…
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Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry: impact on ASEAN
29.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Mekong Expert Group on Agroforestry for Food and Nutrition Security, Sustainable Agriculture and…
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Agricultural innovation in the mountains: a new direction
28.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform in Yunnan, China is a new way to better understand…
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We can forecast weather and prepare our farm better
26.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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For thousands of years, the farmers of My Loi village in Ha Tinh Province, Viet…
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ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Development set to revolutionize land use in Southeast Asia
16.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry held their 40th meeting on 11 October 2018 in…
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Trees on farms contributing to post-2020 biodiversity framework
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As countries wrapped up discussion at CBD COP 14 in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt, the…
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Challenging gender norms around trees and land restoration in West Africa: can research be transformative?
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
Trees are important sources of income for many women in the drylands of West Africa,…
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Operationalizing the Agroforestry Strategy and Plan for Rwanda
21.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Rwanda was the first African country to declare a target for land restoration, aiming for…
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