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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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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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ASEAN-CGIAR workshop reviews use of Vietnam's biodiversity to promote resilience
30.11.23-
Biodiversity
A workshop to promote the use of agrobiodiversity in transforming Vietnam’s food systems towards m…
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Seedling propagators shift to sowing trays to improve yields
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The system has shorter growing seasons and survival rate, improved crop uniformity, and more accurat…
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A guide to better tomorrow’s brew through regenerative coffee farming
02.10.23-
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Climate change means we must change how we grow coffee For centuries, coffee has grown…
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Deltaic Food Systems: A critical juncture for rural food vendors in Cambodia
22.08.23-
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Home to 177 million people – 36 percent of them poor and vulnerable – the…
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Enset farming in Ethiopia: explained by indigenous farmers
15.08.23-
Biodiversity
375 enset-farming households in 20 communities were interviewed to gain insight into multiple aspect…
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Award-winning tool leverages agrobiodiversity for sustainable food systems
25.07.23-
Biodiversity
“The food system is at the center of multiple challenges that we're facing. This includes…
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Bridging the gap between traditional and regenerative agriculture with the agro-biodiversity index
24.07.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Regenerative agriculture presents a holistic approach to farming that not only focuses on enhancing …
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Turkana, Kenya: Reaping Immense Benefits of Vegetables Production
11.07.23-
Adaptation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Research by CGIAR’s Nature+ Initiative in arid and semi-arid Kenyan nomadic communities showed dec…
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Meeting national targets and global commitments with systems thinking
05.07.23-
Biodiversity
From the Sustainable Development Goals to national nutrition targets, the proliferation of national …
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Pooling intergenerational beekeeping knowledge
27.06.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Since 2019, the AI-Driven Climate-Smart Beekeeping for Women project (AID-CSB) has worked with beeke…
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NATURE+ Initiative to provide policymakers with tools needed to incentivize nature-positive agriculture
22.06.23-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Authors: Kristin Davis (International Food Policy Research Institute – IFPRI), Sean Mattson (Allia…
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ILRI and partners support participatory rangeland management legislation in Isiolo County, Kenya
21.06.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
One of the challenges to sustainable rangeland management and conservation in northern Kenya is weak…
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Agrobiodiversity Index wins the Food Planet Prize 2023
09.06.23-
Biodiversity
We are delighted that the Agrobiodiversity Index, supported by NEXUS Gains, has won the Food…
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The Alliance Agrobiodiversity Index has won the 2023 Food Planet Prize
09.06.23-
Biodiversity
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Nutrition, health & food security
"The Agrobiodiversity Index has done something that has never been tried before", said the announcem…
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SCIENCE + NEGLECTED CROPS = BETTER BIODIVERSITY
22.05.23-
Biodiversity
Neglected crops can improve soil health, reduce water usage, provide a nutritious food source, a…
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Transforming Kenya's motorcycle taxi riders into soil experts
18.05.23-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Motorcycle taxi (boda boda) riders are a common feature in Kenya, providing essential transport serv…
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Reduced-tillage potato cultivation as a sustainable organic farming practice
13.04.23-
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On-farm demonstration trials using organic reduced tillage and rice straw mulching for potato crops …
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How to climate-proof the Ethiopian breadbasket? Combine genomics and farmer knowledge
03.04.23-
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Biodiversity
Durum wheat is an important staple crop and part of Ethiopia’s cultural heritage. Its genetic…
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