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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
16.05.25-
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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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Illuminating Hidden Harvests country case study author: Hunter Synder
19.11.20-
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Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH): The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable develop…
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Regreening Africa's consolidated seven-country baseline survey
16.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Regreening Africa recently published a significant consolidated baseline survey report, synthesizin…
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Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land-restoration strategy: under what conditions does it work?
14.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The upcoming 2021–2030 United Nations decade of restoration aims to accelerate efforts towards ach…
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What rising CO2 does to one of world’s most important protein sources
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
In their effort to ensure food and nutrition security in the face of rising carbon…
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Gendering migration: how straightforward is it?
11.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Drawing on the narratives of women and men who have domestic or international migration experience,…
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Improving governance of trees can better conserve biodiversity
09.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated clearing of forests are…
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Diving into diverse human-ocean relationships bares the base of a fair blue economy
09.09.20-
Biodiversity
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We are all ocean people, whether we live by the sea or not. Life on…
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Latin America learning how much carbon can be stored in grazing land
07.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nine Latin American countries plan to use silvopastoral practices, which incorporate trees into graz…
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Prioritising agroforestry in the policy agenda: six recommendations to scaling
03.09.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Integrating trees in farming and pastoral landscapes – agroforestry is one of the most effective…
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Agroecological management of fall armyworm: Africa, South Asia and South America
31.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
When fall armyworm first arrived on the African continent in 2016, the potential loss of…
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Rising fodder shortage prompts release of two pearl millet varieties with superior and higher forage in south India
28.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Two pearl millet varieties with 7.0% and 5.4% higher green forage yields as compared to…
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Potato diversity leads to economic gain in Uganda
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
The genebank of the International Potato Centre (CIP) holds more than 6000 accessions of potatoes…
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Which tree, where in Nepal? Mapping for the national agroforestry policy
27.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers have used different geospatial datasets of land, soil, climate and topography to model, …
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What does it take to change the Earth? India’s National Agroforestry Policy and beyond
24.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 2014, India became the first country in the world to adopt a national agroforestry policy.…
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Discussions on propelling India towards biofuel sees calls for more R&D
21.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
ICRISAT’s efforts in feedstocks development appreciated on World Biofuel Day India has made good p…
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WorldFish climate change leader Essam Yassin Mohammed seeks a systems approach for resilient aquatic foods
20.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Marine and freshwater resources provide a lifeline for millions of impoverished people around the wo…
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Tree roots reduce landslide risk
19.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers in Indonesia provide evidence of suitability of tree species in preventing landslides. &…
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How many trees does a healthy watershed need?
17.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Indonesian spatial-planning law prescribes that every district needs to have 30% forest cover to sec…
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