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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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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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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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Expansion of oil palm plantations into forests appears to be changing local diets in Indonesia
16.10.18-
Food security
Indonesia - (Forests News) – When Rosalina Heni is not working in the rice paddy…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples and local communities may curb global warming
15.10.18Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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Securing rights of indigenous peoples, local communities may curb global warming: Reaction to IPCC Report
10.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforesta…
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Governing forests for sustainability: What works?
09.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — What can 19 reviews assessing 1,200 research articles spanning o…
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Blinding consumers to the true cost of soy?
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Environmental health
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Food security
BOGOR, Indonesia (Forests News) — Tofu, edamame, soy sauce – if this is what you…
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New Papua Atlas tracks impact of plantations, roads on forests
05.10.18-
Environmental health
Indonesia - Thanks to its remote location and sparse population, Indonesian Papua, on the western…
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El Salvador’s president urges U.N. support for decade of ecosystem restoration
30.09.18-
Environmental health
A major international effort to devote a decade to promoting the restoration and rehabilitation of…
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U.N. Champions of the Earth Award recognizes eco-defender Joan Carling
27.09.18-
Environmental health
Environment and indigenous rights defender Joan Carling has received the 2018 Champions of the Earth…
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Preventing total forest loss in Uganda
26.09.18-
Environmental health
By 2050 Uganda will be completely without forest cover at the current rate of tree…
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Without effective action, planet may be on track for irreversible warming, study shows
17.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
As sweltering temperatures and record numbers of wildfires affect people around the globe, a paper…
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Forests: an overlooked resource for tackling micronutrient deficiency
17.09.18-
Food security
A study by the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute argues that forests are an overlooked re…
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Antarctic ozone depletion influences rainfall in tropics
14.09.18-
Environmental health
For residents of New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina or South Africa, the hole in the…
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Realizing the potential of Africa’s rangelands
11.09.18-
Environmental health
Rangelands cover some 43 percent of Africa’s land area – approximately 5.1 million square miles…
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New app helps African farmers find the right tree
07.09.18-
Environmental health
A new web-based application now makes it possible for small-scale farmers to see the African…
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Why the drone buzz is getting louder
07.09.18-
Environmental health
In 2012, peer-reviewed journal Tropical Conservation Science ran an article announcing the ‘dawn …
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Indigenous lands crucial for conservation
06.09.18-
Environmental health
The world’s remaining ‘wild places’ are often envisaged to be packed full of biodiversity, and…
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Despite obstacles, GLF delegates see progress on AFR100 forest targets
06.09.18-
Environmental health
The rehabilitation of degraded forests and wooded, productive landscapes is a key component of a…
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