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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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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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A brief explainer of the blue economy
10.07.18Indonesia - Carbon-rich coastal ecosystems are rocketing to the forefront of global actions on clima…
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Forests: The greenest pastures?
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Food security
Ethiopia - How can you keep farms productive for generations while reducing the impact on…
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Gaharu: A migration story
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Indonesia - When the “gaharu rush” began, the migrants came in their hundreds. Suddenly, in…
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In Kenya, no progress on progressive 30% gender quota
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Gender equality
Kenya - Talking about local resource management in the context of rural African communities means…
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Momentum for U.N. decade of ecological restoration grows ahead of Nairobi GLF
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Environmental health
A proposal by Brazil to pool global resources and dedicate 10 years to promoting the…
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New Colombia green belt provides protective barrier for Amazon biome
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Environmental health
A 9.2 million hectare landscape restoration corridor in Colombia will link the borders of Brazil…
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Three questions on ecotourism with Robyn Nixon
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As environmental responsibility increasingly pervades lifestyle habits – from fashion to farmers m…
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Benefit-sharing mechanisms: Barking up the wrong tree?
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
As the quest to protect and restore forests advances and evolves, the age-old question of…
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Critically endangered mountain gorilla population grows despite threats to forest habitat
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Environmental health
The number of critically endangered mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) living in the ra…
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Miracle mangrove “land builders” adapt to ocean rise amid climate change
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Understanding how ecosystems function can help scientists develop strategies to ensure the planet wi…
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What if Cameroonian consumers wanted legal timber?
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Cameroon - Cameroonians are still not very interested in knowing the origin of the wood…
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Risky business: Tenure issues main deterrent for investment
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
At the finance-focused Global Landscapes Forum Investment Case Symposium, land tenure was the primar…
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How to take forest landscape restoration to the next level
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Europe - Governments around the world have pledged over 150 million hectares of forested land…
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Future finance: Blend, bond and blockchain
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Sustainable finance is struggling to adapt to the rapidity of global development, forcing global res…
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A first – and hard – look at restoring Mexico’s terrestrial ecosystems
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Mexico is home to vast biological and cultural diversity, alongside a robust legal framework and…
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Ocean currents are slowing down, and that’s bad news
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Environmental health
Two recent articles in the journal Nature reached the same disconcerting conclusion: One of the…
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Decaying Belgian Congo–era maps reveal secrets of valuable African tree
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Biodiversity
In the dusty library of a research station on the Congo River, a decaying map…
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Figuring out the water cycle… still
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
There are a few different levels of understanding about the water cycle. There are the…
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