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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
09.07.25-
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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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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How lab-made fashion is changing landscapes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
Haute couture made out of orange peels. ‘Leather’ shoes and handbags grown from mushrooms. Diamo…
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How to wash your clothes
27.02.19-
Environmental health
So you’ve chosen your outfit with sustainability in mind. Maybe you agonized over the relative…
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Sustainable fashion moving from trend to permanent style
26.02.19-
Environmental health
It’s the end of what’s likely been the ‘greenest’ fashion month yet, with some of…
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Humanitarians struggle to address environment: ‘It’s nice but it’s not crucial’
25.02.19-
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With growing stress on natural resources, emergency workers have begun to examine their intervention…
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Forest dwellers face mass evictions, as species extinction threatens global food supply
25.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Forests News delves into headlines from around the globe: Millions of forest dwellers face eviction…
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Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast by examining alternative crops in the lower Gangetic plains
22.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
Wheat blast — one of the world’s most devastating wheat diseases — is moving swiftly into ne…
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Turning on the lights in eastern Indonesia
22.02.19-
Environmental health
As a city dweller in Indonesia, I am blessed with an abundance of privilege. I…
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Navigating the road to socially inclusive hydropower
21.02.19-
Environmental health
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Asia Times opinion article reports insights from new research in Nepal.…
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Groundwater and sustainable development
21.02.19-
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New reports heighten awareness of an urgent imperative.…
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Launching today—CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
21.02.19-
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Health
Launching today in Kenya is a CGIAR AMR Hub for powering global, national and local…
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Fine-tuning flood risk management
20.02.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
New rounds of pilot testing and post-flood recovery in India.…
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Tension and transformation in the patriarchy
20.02.19-
Environmental health
Kenya - When Jackline Cheplang’at began teaching fellow community members about gender and conserv…
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FTA welcomes new Independent Steering Committee member Richard Stanislaus Muyungi
20.02.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) has welcomed a new member…
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Rethinking the food system to tackle triple burden of malnutrition
19.02.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
The global narrative on food security and nutrition is not new: 1 billion people go…
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Tree love and lonely elephants, AI in restoration, and palm oil myths debunked
18.02.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
In Forests News last week: Palm oil; Smallholder expansion on the rise The assumption that…
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Trees nurture nutrition
18.02.19-
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Food security
Foods from farms with trees — also known as agroforestry — are dense with nutrients.…
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Talk shows and text messages in Kenya’s Rift Valley
15.02.19-
Environmental health
This story is the second in a three-part series. Read part one, Barking up the…
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Tree love this Valentine’s Day
14.02.19-
Environmental health
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Forests News asked staff at Center for International Forestry Resear…
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