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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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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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Climate change could mean beer shortages on tap
08.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
As the impact of climate change on food staples becomes more apparent, scientists with the Internat…
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Peatlands: From marginal lands to essential ecosystem
07.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Peatlands, natural areas of the accumulated decayed plant material known as peat, have huge importan…
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New review finds fundamental gaps and new opportunities for world’s agricultural monitoring systems
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The world’s agricultural monitoring systems provide up-to-date information on food production to d…
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Agroforestry and land health in Malawi
05.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In the last five years ICRAF has helped establish comprehensive soil information systems in Tanzania…
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In the mountains of China and Ethiopia lies a joint future
02.11.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Mekelle University, Kunming Institute of Botany and the World Agroforestry Centre are sharing knowle…
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Why cows are getting a bad rap in lab-grown meat debate
01.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A small-scale production line of the leghemoglobin for a plant-based hamburger is displayed during a…
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Designing gender-sensitive and climate-smart technologies: a must for the future of Guatemalan agriculture
01.11.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
A recent National Geographic article opened with the shocking headline: “Changing climate forces d…
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Policy seminar: FAO Food Security and Nutrition Report explores growing threats of climate change
31.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition
Global hunger and undernourishment are rising, and climate change impacts such as frequent droughts …
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
30.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit:Â BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).Â…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
29.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
 We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
26.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
24.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
23.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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Giving water a second life
17.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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World Food Day: Innovations are imperative to ending hunger and malnutrition
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Health
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Nutrition
Food security and nutrition are directly or indirectly related to all the Sustainable Development Go…
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Committed to Alleviating Malnutrition, India Declares Minimum Levels for Iron and Zinc in Pearl Millet
16.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has established minimum levels of iron and zinc…
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