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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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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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Four key steps to a sustainable food future
20.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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Nutrition
The world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with rising numbers of people …
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Top of the tree: FTA in 2018
19.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The year 2018 saw the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) chalk…
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Climate and Agriculture at COP24: Depressing or Exhilarating?
18.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Walking the hallways of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 24th Conf…
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Blue carbon focus could sail Indonesia through Paris targets
16.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The next U.N. climate talks will be known as the “blue COP,” said a top…
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Connecting the dots: Stepping up food systems transformation under a changing climate
14.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
At the closing session of the Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, keynote speakers…
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Breaking Ground: Tek Sapkota finds ways to reduce emissions from agriculture without compromising food security
13.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As the world population increases, so does the need for food. “We need to produce more…
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The winding path to transformational change
13.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In its first 10 years, REDD+ has inspired much enthusiasm and hope for a global…
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Soils Advantage: Scaling up action on soil carbon
13.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Soil carbon has become the darling of the climate change world, because it can accomplish…
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CATIE presents results on sentinel landscapes in Nicaragua-Honduras
12.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
One of the most innovative approaches from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and…
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Can resilience go digital?
12.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Disasters typically hit hardest at the most vulnerable populations among us. Such people often have…
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Making smallholder farmers more secure: ICRISAT’s contribution to climate research
11.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As nations from around the globe debate the impacts of climate change and discuss sustainable…
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Which are the right crops to enable food security under future climates?
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
A new paper sets out to determine if crop-specific research investments can be prioritized to…
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Call to action: more trees to restore landscapes and improve livelihoods in northern Ghana
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
“There is an urgent need in northern Ghana for metro, municipal and district assemblies, NGOs…
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Livestock and silvopastoral systems in Latin America: how to measure the greenhouse gases
07.12.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers are sharing knowledge about how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock and in…
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CSA Investment Advantage: Identifying best-bets
07.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The transformation needed in the agriculture sector to address climate change requires the identific…
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CIMMYT drought tolerant maize: A key innovation for millions of farmers, says FAO
03.12.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As climate experts forecast another climate-warming El Nino in early 2019, maize varieties develope…
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