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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food SystemsÂ
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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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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Women farmers in Malawi and Zambia fighting fall armyworm
25.06.20-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Life as we once knew it is gone. The emergence and spread of COVID-19 has…
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Climate-smart agriculture in Ethiopia and beyond: ‘We need to amplify the lessons’
23.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Jim Hallett of the Society for Ecological Restoration reviews major recent book by World Agroforestr…
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Reshaping circular agriculture: Mountain Futures Insect Breeding Facility shaking up industries in rural China
15.06.20-
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The group shuffled into the exhibition room, eyes flitting across parasitic fungi growing out of…
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Piloting climate-smart agriculture for climate-change adaptation in Viet Nam
12.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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A new project financed by the German Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safet…
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Ethiopia to grow 5 billion trees in the Second Green Legacy Campaign
09.06.20-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Ethiopian Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed launched the Second Green Legacy Campaign on 5 June 2020,…
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Agroecology and Natural Farming Could Accelerate Inclusive Economic Growth in India
08.06.20-
Biodiversity
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International experts in a convention organized on 29 May by NITI Aayog endorsed efforts to…
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Coping with climate change through agroforestry: the experience of the Ykalingas in the Philippines
08.06.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The province of Kalinga is surrounded by mountains and divided into three distinct geographical area…
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Boosting environmental education in primary schools in Mali
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Environmental degradation and climate change are major concerns for all countries in the world. The…
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Monitoring safeguards at the community-level: are we delivering good or bad change?
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Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Imagine this scenario: an indigenous people’s organization (IPO) in the Philippines withdrawing it…
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Science and tradition: how indigenous communities manage forests
30.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Imagine a sustainable community-based forest management system — payment for ecosystem services  
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Could bamboo-based agroforestry systems be the latest kind of climate smart agriculture?
18.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Bamboo is not just this new hipster material used for producing alternative clothes. Bamboo can…
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Combatting COVID-19 and CSSVD: a similar approach?
14.05.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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The United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise …
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How do you feel about agroforestry?
12.05.20-
Biodiversity
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Over the last five decades of agroforestry research, only a handful of studies have investigated…
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What makes an integrated development plan truly integrated?
08.05.20-
Biodiversity
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When the Turkana County Government in Kenya partnered with the Stakeholder Approach to Risk-Informe…
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Improving small-scale crop production using evidence-based soils agronomy
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Biodiversity
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Food security
Small-scale farming is the main food security contributor in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, owing to c…
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How trees and water fuel sustainable communities
30.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
This podcast will take you into the underground river hidden beneath the karst ecosystem and…
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Reimagining ecosystem-based adaptation practices based on community priorities and preferences in The Gambia
24.04.20-
Biodiversity
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The findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report of 2005 have changed the global percept…
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A post-Covid19 future requires foresight to build back planetary health
22.04.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious disease. Despite humanity 
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