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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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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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Refining honey production through investing in bee houses
09.10.18-
Biodiversity
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Farmers in Uganda are learning new ways of managing their bees, avoiding conflict and making…
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Planting trees on a stony hill: a story with pictures
05.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Researchers in Indonesia have produced an illustrated book to help farmers better understand researc…
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Refugees and the environment: the case of Arua
03.10.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Saving lives happens in emergencies but also over the long term. Researchers are calling for…
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Can Strengthening Women’s Influence in Land Use Decisions Lead to a Greater Adoption of Cocoa Agroforests?
03.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Over the last two decades in Latin America, cultural norms and laws have become more…
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Free community labour: critical to Ethiopia’s drive to restore land and improve livelihoods
01.10.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Farmers and pastoralists in Ethiopia have provided huge amounts of time and labour, free of…
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Priorities for Green Climate Fund identified by the Philippines
28.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Almost 400 initiatives were consolidated from government agencies to create the focus areas that wil…
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Strengthening agricultural research in Kenya
26.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Agriculture plays a key role in Kenya’s economy and national development, accounting for 70% of…
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Land restoration in Africa builds momentum
25.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Hundreds of delegates from across Africa and the world met recently at the Global Landscapes…
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“We started as a hungry nation” but trees on farms are now key
10.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Interview with Secretary Chhabilendra Roul of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the power…
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The forest is an ally not an enemy: can Peruvian farms support biodiversity?
07.09.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A new project in Peru is setting out to overcome barriers to growing more trees…
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Agroforestry Concessions are a strategic mechanism for smallholders in the Amazon. How do we make it work?
06.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Every year, the Peruvian Amazon loses more than 100,000 hectares of forest due to…
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Beyond selfies: African youth vow to restore the continent’s landscapes
05.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
On 27-28 August, over 60 youth from a dozen African countries gathered at the World…
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Indonesia looking to protect biodiversity through trees on farms
03.09.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Representatives from government and non-governmental organizations are working together to ensure th…
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Options for trees on farms in Kalimantan, Indonesia
28.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Researchers are exploring existing systems that mix trees with rice, oil palm and other species…
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Lessons from Kenya on how to restore degraded land
15.08.18-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
The state of the earth’s biodiversity – the world’s variety of living organisms – is…
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How soil scientists can do a better job of making their research useful
14.08.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Soil is a vital part of the natural environment. It supports the growth of plants,…
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From farm to fork: strengthening direct sales between smallholders and consumers in Cusco, Peru
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Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Researchers say farmers need more help if they are to sell healthy farm products directly…
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Agroforestry could make agriculture emissions-neutral by 2050
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
At a defining conference centred around the forthcoming ASEAN Guidelines for Agroforestry Developmen…
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