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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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Damned if you don’t!
05.07.18-
Environmental health
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Health
Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.…
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FAO.org: Pollutants from agriculture a serious threat to world’s water
22.06.18-
Environmental health
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Health
New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.…
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Blogs.WorldBank.org: Secrets to successful irrigation management from Central Asia
21.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
About 60 percent of the region’s people are employed by the agricultural sector, which depends…
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More people, more food, worse water?
21.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Turning around a "toxic" relationship.…
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TheDiplomat: The Impact of Migration on Water Scarcity in Central Asia
19.06.18-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?…
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International Decade for Action
18.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
“Water for Sustainable Development” 2018-2028…
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India.Mongabay.com: India’s groundwater crisis, fueled by intense pumping, needs urgent management
13.06.18-
Environmental health
Central and southern India appear to be experiencing increasing freshwater stores, likely due to a…
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Water User Associations
13.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Learning to deliver on their promise in Africa Irrigated agriculture has once again risen to…
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World Environment Day
06.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Our rivers are barometers of environmental neglect – it’s time to clean them up…
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AdaDerana.lk: How is Sri Lanka preparing to tackle recurring floods?
05.06.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
However, each year the country scrambles in search for an effective forecast and flood management…
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ScienceLine.org: What pushes a major city to the brink of running out of water?
31.05.18-
Environmental health
By April, it became clear the city would just avoid reaching “Day Zero,” the date…
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Rice and Reason: Planning for System Complexity in the Indus Basin
30.05.18-
Food security
The summary of this scenario development workshop and a Vision for the Indus Basin will…
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TheDiplomat.com: Asia’s Environment Is at a Tipping Point
23.05.18-
Environmental health
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Food security
Better application of scientific knowledge and technology can improve food, water, and energy securi…
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The road to climate resilience
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Enabling rural communities to draw up action plans aimed at enhancing resilience to climate-related …
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Informing Change in the Indus Basin (ICIB)
10.05.18-
Environmental health
Opportunities for journalists to report on the most pressing environmental and development problems …
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IndiaSpend.com: Even Without India’s Water Crisis, Doubling Farmers’ Income In 5 Years Impossible
10.05.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Currently a senior fellow at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Anand, Shah helm…
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WaterPartnership.org.au: AWP and IWMI to collaborate on water management across the Asia-Pacific
04.05.18-
Environmental health
Strengthening DFAT and AWP’s partnership with IWMI provides the opportunity for working more close…
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UnEnvironment.org: Scientists warn of dangerous decline in Asia-Pacific’s biodiversity
24.04.18-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The report comprises four assessments covering Asia-Pacific as well as three other major regions of…
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