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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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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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Collaborating to innovate for India’s agriculture research: ICAR – ICRISAT finalize 5-year action plan
31.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Improved crops, nutrition-sensitive agriculture on the cards A five-year plan for Indian agricultu…
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Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
30.01.19-
Environmental health
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pilla…
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Climate change policy must distinguish (long-lived) carbon dioxide from (short-lived) methane–Oxford study
29.01.19-
Environmental health
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Left to right: Auto rickshaw by eCSSpert, Untitled (Plate with Knife and Fork) by Klaas…
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Agricultural innovation in the mountains: a new direction
28.01.19-
Biodiversity
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The Mountain Futures Innovation Platform in Yunnan, China is a new way to better understand…
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DailyNews.lk: Countering climate change with the cascade effect
24.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Researchers with IWMI have joined a major effort to rehabilitate "tank" (or small reservoir) cascade…
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Religious leaders in Colombia and Peru urge protection of rainforests
23.01.19-
Environmental health
An appeal made by Pope Francis almost four years ago to prevent the destruction of…
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Extended partnership to deliver high-yielding, disease-resistant finger millet to farmers
23.01.19-
Environmental health
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Nutrition
Farmers can soon access finger millet varieties that not only withstand drought but are also…
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Communities still not at the core of restoration, experts say
22.01.19-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
It’s a familiar refrain in environmental circles: to be effective and sustainable, landscape resto…
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Environmental risk in aquaculture: What do farmers think?
22.01.19-
Environmental health
Area-based approaches to address environmental risk are gaining popularity in aquaculture management…
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Barking up the same trees: Water and forests 'cannot be separated' in East Africa's Rift Valley
18.01.19-
Environmental health
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Africa - The forested mountains of East Africa deserve their ‘water towers’ moniker. Their sprin…
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IKEA assembles plan to be carbon negative by 2030
16.01.19-
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By keeping its design high, prices low, service quick and ice cream fresh at the…
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How a dry village got its feet wet
16.01.19-
Environmental health
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Food security
As Laos seeks to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods, while adapting agriculture to clima…
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The itsy bitsy spider can make a big impact in agriculture
15.01.19-
Environmental health
A new study explores how conservation agriculture in southern Africa supports spider populations …
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The Great Food Transformation
15.01.19-
Biodiversity
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Launched today, the EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems sets out pr…
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Has Borneo’s deforestation slowed down?
15.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Borneo - When people talk about deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, palm oil often gets…
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PIM Newsletter: October – December 2018
14.01.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Collection of news from the Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) program for the last quarter…
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A 4-step plan for spatial planning
13.01.19-
Environmental health
Spatial plans, which organize people and activities within a certain area, are often developed by…
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Protecting Congo’s botanical treasures
11.01.19-
Environmental health
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Congo Basin - Nestled within Africa’s biggest rainforest lies what was once the world’s largest…
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