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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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Why social forestry: Keeping the coffee
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In a lush valley in Lampung Province in the southern tip of Sumatra sits the…
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Community land rights open investment opportunities in global south
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Gender equality
The devolution of land tenure rights to forest-dwelling communities over the past quarter century ha…
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Sustainable land bonds may offer a fresh path forward
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Environmental health
Tropical forest countries could soon use a new financial mechanism to access the capital they…
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Counting down: Scientists warn of ‘alarming’ loss of Borneo orangutans
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Once, there were hundreds of thousands of orangutans roaming the island of Borneo. Over the…
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Alue Dohong: Restoring peatlands, empowering communities
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Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) was established with a mission to accelerate the restoration o…
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Small businesses embrace “green” practices without financial incentives, survey shows
06.04.18Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a significant self-initiated role in sustainable and enviro…
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Global warming could halve number of species in most diverse ecosystems, report states
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Biodiversity
What is the price of failing to cut our carbon emissions? A catastrophic loss of…
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To fix landscapes, first get the right tools
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
By pledging to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded land, countries take a…
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Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees?
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Environmental health
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Food security
Agroforestry can make a key contribution to the UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge, which aims to…
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The sweet secrets of Mt. Mutis
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Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Once upon a time, there was a scientist who traveled to West Timor, Indonesia to…
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The tropical family tree: Tracking forests’ evolutionary past
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Big data
Scientists have traced the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests, with some surpris…
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Turning down the heat in Indonesia’s oil palm industry
25.03.18-
Environmental health
In Indonesia, palm oil is a hot industry in more ways than one. In 2015…
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International Day of Forests. What is the state of the world’s forests?
21.03.18-
Environmental health
When it comes to caring for forests, it’s not only a matter of what forests…
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Happy International Day of Forests! Take our quiz
21.03.18-
Environmental health
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Register now for the 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit
12.03.18The 2018 Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) will be held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. APRS provides …
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