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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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Ethiopia to grow 5 billion trees in the Second Green Legacy Campaign
09.06.20-
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Environmental health
Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed launched the Second Green Legacy Campaign on 5 June 2020,…
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The powerful alliance between integrated science and traditional food systems
09.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
The longest running successful experiments in sustainable human land use are found within the collec…
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WorldFish celebrates World Oceans Day
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This year’s theme of World Oceans Day, Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean was at the centre of…
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Agroecology and Natural Farming Could Accelerate Inclusive Economic Growth in India
08.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
International experts in a convention organized on 29 May by NITI Aayog endorsed efforts to…
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World Environment Day 2020 : Building biodiverse food systems for an inclusive and resilient future
05.06.20-
Biodiversity
5 June 2020 : ‘Biodiversity’ involves 8 million plant and animal species, the ecosystems…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Balanced agro-ecosystems strengthen food security
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Preserving biodiversity, and the potential it stores, soils, landscapes, and diets, is one of the m…
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Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Environmental degradation and climate change are major concerns for all countries in the world. The…
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GreenPass puts germplasm distribution in the fast lane
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
The crop diversity in CGIAR’s international genebanks continues to be in great demand. That’s mu…
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Monitoring safeguards at the community-level: are we delivering good or bad change?
02.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Imagine this scenario: an indigenous people’s organization (IPO) in the Philippines withdrawing it…
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Science and tradition: how indigenous communities manage forests
30.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine a sustainable community-based forest management system — payment for ecosystem services  
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Solutions in nature: promoting the efficacy of indigenous medicinal plants
25.05.20-
Biodiversity
Over the centuries, earth’s biological diversity has played a crucial role in the development and…
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Preserving the legacy of biodiversity
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
Seed security is the first step towards food security. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement…
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Collecting, conserving, and deploying agrobiodiversity to support dryland communities
21.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Agrobiodiversity is the genetic variety and variability of animals, plants, and micro-organisms that…
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Champion Pollinators on World Bee Day 2020
19.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Around 75% of the world’s food crops depend entirely or in part on animal pollination…
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
12.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
08.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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