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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-
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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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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
21.03.20-
Biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises. Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places…
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The role of agroforestry in forest restoration
20.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Integrated Natural Resources and Environmental Management Project (INREMP) was launched in 201…
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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
11.03.20-
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and…
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Study: Agroforestry may improve planetary health
25.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
A new study reports that agroforestry—a method integrating trees with crops and livestock—is l…
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ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
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First public research facility to put agriculture on fast-forward launched at ICRISAT
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Efforts to modernize crop breeding took a giant leap today with the unveiling of ICRISAT’s…
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Empowering young scientists with new skills to develop genomic-assisted climate-resilient crops
21.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
A recent training course sought to enable young scientists, professors and breeders in the area…
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MEDIA RELEASE| Growing trees on farms in post-soviet Kyrgyzstan faces significant obstacles but there are ways to overcome them: first study’s results
20.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Nairobi, Kenya. 20 February 2020 – Small plot-sizes, as well as lack of information and external…
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Planting trees or growing them. Do the words matter for restoring land?
17.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Every year, millions of dollars are spent on attempting to restore landscapes to health by…
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Projects funded by Germany make a difference to people, trees, ecology
12.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Grants from BMZ enrich and push boundaries at World Agroforestry (ICRAF) Each year, seeking ‘innov…
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Back to where they came from
11.02.20-
Biodiversity
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has embarked on a project to return…
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Working together with the Makueni County Government to combat land degradation
07.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Drylands cover more than 40% of the world’s land surface and are home to more…
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Humboldt’s 'Naturgemälde' can pave the way for lasting agro-ecological transitions
29.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Chimborazo—the indestructible, snow-capped “throne of nature,” as Simón Bolívar called the i…
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Brussels Development Briefing: How local application of agroecological principles can transform food systems
28.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Leading agricultural scientist calls for transformation of the world’s food systems to align with …
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MEDIA RELEASE | Oil-palm agroforestry: a solution for two out of three of Indonesia’s ‘economic diplomacy’ issues
23.01.20-
Biodiversity
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Nairobi, Kenya. 22 January 2020 — The Government of Indonesia has prioritized three ‘economic …
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Reversing desertification in Andhra Pradesh: a case for ‘engagement landscapes’
22.01.20-
Biodiversity
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he government of the Indian state is speeding up efforts to return land to productivity…
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