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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-
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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‘Data streaming from the spectrometer’: a new dawn for soil assessments
13.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
For over two decades, the Soils Theme of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in collaboration with partners…
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Launch of the ICRISAT Annual Report 2019
07.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
2019 was a year of many firsts… And we are glad to have rolled out…
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Welcoming Leigh Ann Winowiecki as Leader of the Land Health Decisions Theme
03.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Dr Leigh Ann Winowiecki has been appointed the new Theme Leader for Land Health Decisions…
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Termitomyces: exploring the world’s most mysterious mushroom
03.08.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Researchers are readying to shine light on the world’s ‘dark matter’ — fungi — and…
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COVID-19 and food security | Limiting the impact of the crisis on rice value chains in West Africa
30.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 30 July 2020 -- Rice plays a strategic role in food…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Farmers’ experience and ecological knowledge proven valuable against land degradation in Mali
24.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
A study by scientists from World Agroforestry (ICRAF) in Mopti, Segou and Sikasso, located in cent…
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Expert-assisted Decision Analysis supports agroforestry in Viet Nam
20.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Selecting appropriate practices for specific locations that are aligned with the needs, values and p…
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How to feed a growing global population in the midst of a climate crisis
17.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
We have all heard the figures: by 2050, the world’s population is expected to increase…
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Expanding and improving Genesys
10.07.20-
Biodiversity
Genesys, the online portal for information on genebank samples, is constantly evolving. First launch…
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Fourteen breeding seed orchards already established in Ethiopia
07.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio in Ethiopia project, led by World Agroforestry (ICRA…
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New highly productive sorghum varieties released
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
Three improved sorghum varieties with a yield potential of approximately 4 tons per hectare and…
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Sacred forests and environmental protection among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia
03.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The Gedeo’s sacred forests are conserved for ritual purposes,’ said Yoseph Maru, first author of…
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Secret to on-off fertility discovered in pigeonpea
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Health
New study reveals how in some lines male sterility can be reversed to produce hybrids…
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ILRI’s ‘Azizi’ facility is storing samples of livestock and wildlife biodiversity for future research
26.06.20-
Biodiversity
Written by Ekta Patel & Paul Karaimu Cylindrical liquid nitrogen sample storage tanks. Nairobi-b…
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Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and beyond: ‘We need to amplify the lessons’
23.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Jim Hallett of the Society for Ecological Restoration reviews major recent book by World Agroforestr…
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It's time to take a business model approach to restore Ethiopia's lands
17.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The impacts of land degradation are already severe and far reaching. Degraded lands threaten soils,…
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COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system
11.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
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Health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Photo: COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multif…
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