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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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Tree planting is critical for sustainable future but can’t fix climate change on its own
22.09.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Around 40 kilometers south-west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, native and exotic trees stand…
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CIFOR annual report brings impact of 2019 forest research efforts into focus
12.07.20The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has honed its capacity to transform research …
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The carbon on your plate: mangrove and aquaculture
11.07.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Stinky and full of mosquitos, mangrove forests may easily be dismissed and marginalized. But in…
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CIFOR’s Robert Nasi to U.S. congressional staff: wildlife trade, ecosystem degradation and climate change, major drivers of emerging infectious diseases
30.06.20Ample evidence exists to show that landscape changes resulting from ecosystem fragmentation and degr…
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Jane Goodall and Robert Nasi: Put forests at forefront of COVID-19 recovery
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Food security
One of the major problems in the world today is food security and the growing…
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Will COVID-19 put the kibosh on major in-person conferences for good?
23.05.20The COVID-19 global lockdown has made a big dent in daily carbon emissions, according to…
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The challenge of charcoal
20.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part two in a series of three stories that…
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Kenya’s mountain treasures
13.05.20EAST AFRICA FORESTS SERIES This is part one in a series of three stories that…
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Terrain through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic: Footprint for a healthy planet
05.05.20-
Food security
Scientists have demonstrated that such diseases as COVID-19, the new SARS-COV2 coronavirus, and Ebol…
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COVID-19 and what it means for wild meat
23.04.20The spread of diseases from animals to humans—called zoonoses—is a public health issue as eviden…
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COVID-19 pandemic: How nature steps in to refill ’empty forests’ when animals disappear
17.04.20“We must not let a forest full of trees fool us into believing that all…
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COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers
30.03.20Conservationists have greeted China’s recent clampdown on wild animal hunting and consumption with…
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Papua mangroves could help Indonesia coast to climate targets
23.03.20Indonesia - The characteristics of mangroves in a range of ecosystems – from undisturbed natural…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Zambia - It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of…
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Natural forest regeneration: A good choice for biodiversity
21.03.20-
Biodiversity
Forests are full of surprises. Parts of the Amazon, Panama’s Darien and many other places…
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Five (or six) solutions for saving the world’s forests and restoring landscapes
20.03.20We’ve heard a lot about ambitious tree planting initiatives in recent months. Laudable as these…
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8 reads on how coronavirus could swing the battle against climate change
18.03.20-
Health
As entire countries go on lockdown, factories close and international air travel grinds to a hal…
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Amazon rainforest could disappear within 50 years, scientists report
11.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Large scale ecosystems the size of the Amazon forests could collapse within 50 years and…
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