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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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What happened at the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
25.04.18-
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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-
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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
10.04.18-
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Vietnam’s coffee boom and the threat from water insecurity Vietnam is the world’s largest produc…
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To fix landscapes, first get the right tools
05.04.18-
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By pledging to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land, countries take a…
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ArkansasOnline.com: UN biodiversity report paints bleak picture
26.03.18-
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WASHINGTON — Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a significant rate, according…
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The power of science to halt deforestation
23.03.18-
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Science and research can offer significant contributions to halting deforestation and increasing the…
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How to keep Africa’s solar irrigation boom from going bust
23.03.18-
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IWMI researchers underline both the promise and perils of Africa's emerging boom in solar-powered ir…
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Water Crises Are Hitting Our Economies. Time to Hit Back with Natural Infrastructure
21.03.18-
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This Thrive blog was originally published as an Op-Ed on Thompson Reuters. With rapidly dwindling…
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World Water Day and more: Giving nature its due
21.03.18-
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The theme for World Water Day 2018 is 'Nature for Water' – exploring nature-based solutions…
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Halting deforestation is ‘everyone’s fight’
21.03.18-
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Photo by N. Sujana/CIFOR Halting and reversing deforestation are key to achieving the Sustainable De…
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AL-Monitor.com: Why drought is a national security issue in Iran
20.03.18-
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Mismanagement of water resources combined with climate change threaten the futures of coming generat…
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PIM pre-conference workshop on rural transformation at the International Conference of Agricultural Economists 2018: Selected papers
14.03.18-
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PIM will convene a pre-conference workshop "Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: The Challeng…
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UN Chronicle: Coming to grips with water security in the face of climate change
13.03.18-
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How people in high-risk areas of Africa and Asia can come to grips with water…
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TheHinduBusinessLine.com: Chasing the sun in Samastipur
13.03.18-
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At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural fields…
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How rice plants “manage” water under drought
12.03.18-
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Because of low rainfall and lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an…
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Kenya’s Robin Mbae on livestock and climate change at Berlin’s Global Forum for Food and Agriculture
07.03.18-
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Robin Mbae, deputy director of livestock production at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock…
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Peru and Bioversity International sign an agreement to advance research on cocoa
01.03.18-
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Out of 40 project proposals, the Ministry of Agriculture of Peru selected the top 6,…
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Examining the Philippines energy future and low-carbon development strategies
14.02.18-
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The new paper presents an assessment of alternative, long-term energy supply and low-carbon strategi…
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