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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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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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The forest is an ally not an enemy: can Peruvian farms support biodiversity?
07.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A new project in Peru is setting out to overcome barriers to growing more trees…
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Squaring the meat vs veganism circle
06.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The Kiss, drawing by Pablo Picasso. Bull, Plate VIII, Pablo Picasso, 1946. . .…
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Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?
06.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Every year, the Peruvian Amazon loses more than 100,000 hectares of forest due to…
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DailyMirror.lk: Coordinated effort urged for Sri Lanka’s future water security
04.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
IWMI researchers expressed their views on Sri Lanka’s water security at the latest ‘Colombo Deve…
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WeRise-RR orientations conducted for ICRR researchers
04.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Sukamandi, Indonesia, 15 August 2018 – The IRRI-Japan Collaborative Research Project (IJCRP) on Cl…
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Webinar: Helping smallholder farmers manage risks: Innovations to improve agricultural insurance
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For most smallholder farmers in the developing world, livelihoods are intertwined with agricultural …
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Getting ahead of disaster risks
28.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Climate-smart technology to enhance flood and drought resilience.…
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UN Environment chief backs proposed U.N. Decade for Ecosystem Restoration
23.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
A decade devoted to promoting the rehabilitation of degraded, damaged and destroyed ecosystem…
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Breaking new ground for sustainable architecture in Central Africa
21.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Democratic Republic of the Congo - All over Central Africa, it is a common sight…
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On the road back from ‘safari science’ to embedded collaboration
20.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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As demand for commodities rises, landscapes are changing quickly as natural forests are felled for…
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Hanging in the balance: Preservation, restoration and sustainable management in Indonesian peatlands
20.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The protection of peatland ecosystems, which store “disproportionate” amounts of carbon, is vita…
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How far has Indonesia come on peatland conservation and restoration?
15.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Indonesia - The joint need to protect remaining peatlands while restoring degraded lands resounded t…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
15.08.18-
Big data
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This post originally appeared in The Conversation in light of the 21st World Congress on Soil…
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Forests in policy: A tale of three clusters
12.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
From providing clean water to sustaining agriculture and regulating the climate, forests have an imp…
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A thriving community of women seed producers
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Gender equality
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It started with just three women farmers who were part of a pilot from Pagou…
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Water impact: When over 15,000 tanks were restored, how did lives of smallholder farmers change?
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Soil, water and socio-economic impact of Telangana state government’s Mission Kakatiya to be asses…
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Aspen New Voices Fellows Andrew Mude and Jemimah Njuki tell of the moments their ag careers ‘took off’
10.08.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
For your viewing and listening pleasure, here are two short video ‘stories’ by two great…
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From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru
09.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers say farmers need more help if they are to sell healthy farm products directly…
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