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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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To survive in climate change, look past targets and focus on the long game
31.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Under the theme “Building the Investment Case for Sustainable Landscapes and Restoration,” the 2…
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Here’s how to do bean breeding the climate-smart way
28.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There’s a high likelihood that in 10-30 years’ time, heat stress will become a constraint…
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Outcomes for forests at the Bonn Climate Change Conference
22.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
It has been nearly three years since countries entered into the Paris Agreement. During that…
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Preserving native maize and culture in Mexico
22.05.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
These indigenous farmers are custodians of maize biodiversity, growing seeds passed down over genera…
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Platform for innovation and collaboration strengthened at AgMIP7
14.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
AgMIP, a unique community of practice for innovation, provided a pathway on addressing major global…
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STRASA’s innovative approach to faster adoption of modern rice varieties and technologies
13.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Developing new climate-resilient rice varieties and technologies is simply not enough to mitigate th…
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Disentangling natural resource management impacts – one evaluation at a time
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Last week was a tough one for our small group of IFPRI researchers in Accra.…
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The road to climate resilience
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related …
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IndiaSpend.com: Even Without India’s Water Crisis, Doubling Farmers’ Income In 5 Years Impossible
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Currently a senior fellow at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Anand, Shah helm…
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Coastal forest conservation in Kenya adds up
09.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Enlist the help of hundreds of community volunteers, hire one project coordinator and two security…
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Justice glitches and technical fixes in conservation projects
07.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In the last decade, ambitious global initiatives have been launched to address climate change and…
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Low carbon rice in Latin America: What does it take to make this happen?
07.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Study explores how to cut emissions from one of the region’s most popular crops while…
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Fourth international workshop on farming system design in south Asia
03.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
The fourth international workshop on “Science of Farming Systems: Moving from Prototyping to Model…
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Initiative 20×20 members urge greater access to climate funds, private finance for land restoration
01.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
National forest restoration and conservation projects need more financing to aid transformation to a…
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5 questions on forests in climate change
29.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Halfway between COP23 and COP24, the UNFCCC Bonn Climate Change Conference is being held in…
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What happened at the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
25.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region on earth, home to the world’s three largest cities.…
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UnEnvironment.org: Scientists warn of dangerous decline in Asia-Pacific’s biodiversity
24.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The report comprises four assessments covering Asia-Pacific as well as three other major regions of…
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More for less: improving groundwater use for increased coffee production in Vietnam
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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